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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.”Lewis Carroll

Stephen Pasquini, PA-C, smiling with a patient outside the Homeless Persons Health Project clinic in Santa Cruz — At the Homeless Persons Health Project in Santa Cruz, where I practice.

My story

I almost didn’t get in, either.

I applied to PA school in 2001 with a GPA under 3.0, and I still have the rejection letters to prove it. I kept going, got in, and have been a PA since 2004.

Today I care for patients at the Santa Cruz County Health Department, including the Homeless Persons Health Project. I started The PA Life to give you the help I wish I’d had, with a lot less heartache.

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