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Medical Student Determined to Help Nevada Overcome Its Physician Shortage

A focus on literacy set the foundation for Zaria Rayes' path to medical school.

Zaria Rayes is a second-year student at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

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