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The looming budget crisis in Louisiana could leave us with fewer doctors

Source: nola.com - Mar 19, 2018

Shivani Jani, 23, and Simone Fertel, 27 hugged each other, laughing and crying simultaneously, surrounded by dozens of their peers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and their families on Friday (March 16). They each held letters letting them know which hospitals they will be training at for the next three to seven years.

Behind them, graduating medical students walked one by one, across a stage set up in a large banquet room in the Superdome, waiting to receive their own letters determining where they will spend their residencies and round out their medical education. The event, called Match Day, is possibly the most anticipated day of a medical students' career.

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