Maureen (Molly) and Theresa
(Tessa) McKenna are twins from
Pompano Beach, who have spent the
last three months shadowing local
doctors. Instead of waiting until
their residency years to visit actual
patients, the young women, along
with their classmates, spend four
and a half days a week seeing
patients at doctors’ offices, local hospitals
and walk-in clinics. On
Wednesdays, they spend half the day
in ‘doctoring’ classes, studying case
studies and topics that relate to this
year’s lessons.
Before they moved to Port St.
Lucie, the McKennas volunteered
with under-served and needy populations
abroad in Haiti, Uganda and
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