Feels Good: Free Medical School

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It feels good, good news, happy stories. Would you have
every day on the show, Caylin, what'd you find? Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
So in Arizona couple's dream wedding, it will become a
reality thanks to the kindness of strangers. So it all
started out with a food delivery driver who put a
special note on the order. So this is what happened
when Erica Hernandez had food delivered, like we all do.
She says that she just had to post the note
that she got. Only expecting her Chipotle to come. She

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had a heartfelt note attached to the bag. It read
something along the lines of thank you for your order.
I'm driving on the side to give my fiance the
wedding she deserves. The Uber driver, Paul, kindly asked for
a tip and added his Venmo account user name. He said,
I never set out to leave those notes with the
intention of somebody making a video about it or even

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trying to broadcast it to anybody besides the person I
was delivering to. Erica did tip him, but wanted to
help out in a bigger way. When she made a TikTok,
she felt really inspired to post it and see a
friend would be willing to donate. She just thought something
small was going to come from it, but it went
viral in two hours and it caught Paul's attention. His
phone started blowing up. In less than a week, Paul

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and his fiance received enough donations for their dream wedding
this September. They thanked the woman Erica by giving her
one thousand dollars. On top of that, they also invited
her to their wedding and she said yes, Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Wow, that's awesome. So Bloomberg Philanthropy is announced last Monday
a billion dollar gift to the John Hopkins University Medical
School that will make medical school free for the majority
of students. This is the second story of its kind
in the last few months. But yeah, it's also increasing

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financial aid for students at schools of nursing and public health.
So the average doctor graduating from John Hopkins many people
qualify for financial aid and stuff, but anyway, they still
graduate with student loan debt of approximately one hundred and
four thousand dollars. So, beginning in the fall of twenty fourteen,
John Hopkins will offer free tuition for medical students coming

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from families earning less than three hundred thousand dollars a year,
which represents about ninety five percent of all Americans. On
top of tuition, they're also going to cover living expenses
and fees for students from families who earn less than
one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. So think about that,
love that the barrier to entry for a lot of
people to become a doctor is how freaking expensive it
could be, and now they're paying for it. Look at

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that kicking so sweet. They should get someone to pay
off everybody's toll weight fees as well. That would be nice.
But I'm going to just go back to medical school now. Okay,
well now now you can go back. Yeah, got