Taylor Orcutt was born with a left arm that ends at her elbow, but she refused to let anything stop her from her dream of becoming a pediatrician.
A North Texas woman overcame a rare birth defect and is now about to finish med school at UNT Health Science Center.
Her graduation from Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine is a combination of hard work and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. "My arm just didn't grow. It just stopped right here. They didn't have to do any surgeries," Orcutt explained."They found it on an ultrasound and told my parents, but they were like, ‘Oh, that's fine. As long as she's still healthy,’" Orcutt said."To me, this was just my normal. As kids were learning to tie their shoes, I was learning to tie my shoes the same way, it just took a little longer," she recalled.
"It’s something I had to work on growing up. You always want to be seen as normal as everyone else, but then you get to this point where you realize other people are looking up to you," Orcutt said."For the parents as well. Seeing that you can be successful and still do everything you want to do is reassuring to them," she said.
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