Hello and welcome to season 2 episode 61 of the physician assistant exam review

podcast this week I've got something really special in store for you. My name is Brian Wallace. I'm the hosting creator here at Physician Exam Review.

And for the first time ever, I have a guest on the podcast today.

I had a student reach out to me after a very particular set of circumstances occurred to her and she

wanted to share her story and what happened was I don't want to give away too

much here at the beginning but what happened was she actually failed her pants. She was shocked about

it and found out that she did not pass her exam and just to make sure you get the happy ending she did wind up passing her

test but when she did the period she had going through to get back and take the exam again, was extremely difficult,

extremely painful, which we can all imagine.

But one of the things that really bothered her was the isolation, the lack of community, the lack of people who are willing or able to help her during this very difficult time.

And she actually reached out to me because she said she had searched and searched and searched

and could not find a resource for people who had failed because nobody wants to talk about it because no one will

mention it even people who have failed before if you try to talk with them about

it they really just want to put it behind them. They don't want to go relive that

experience I guess. So as someone who's failed in searching for help, it's

very isolating to find that there's nothing there's not much out there. There's nothing out there that no one wants to talk to you that it's a very very isolating situation and

This individual reached out to me and said,

hey, I passed.

I'm in a much better place now.

I really want to share my story and help people

who don't have a resource, don't have someone to turn to, don't have anyone out there who they

can talk to when this happens.

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