Black women have a higher reported percentage of death during childbirth than white women, and black men and women are more affected by sickle cell anemia than their white counterparts. Although some issues are caused due to genetic predisposition, more often than not, people of color have a higher mortality rate due to socioeconomic disparities. As a woman of color from the inner city, I hope to help close the health gap between black and white individuals by practicing in lower-income communities. Also, as a carrier of sickle cell anemia and a person who suffers from Protein C deficiency, I can relate to people of color who feel like their health is being dealt with inadequately. When receiving my protein c deficiency diagnosis, my doctor followed up with his plan of action—or lack thereof. There was no action to help me with my diagnosis because he wouldn't medicate but instead gave me a list of things I couldn't do. Before I was born, my father suffered a life-threatening blood clot in his brain due to his Protein C deficiency. When he was admitted to the ER for his pain, the nurse treated him terribly and insinuated that he was only coming to the ER for pain meds for an addiction he didn't have. Because of his environment, he was treated like dirt by a nurse because so many others had come in begging for pain medications to ease their addiction. If more nurses could relate to the people in their community and receive better training, nurses like this wouldn't be present in hospitals, offering better treatment to those who need it. Although I also don't condone this nurse's behavior, I can't say that her assumption came from nothing. In the inner city, you see all types of things every day, and I learned this in my volunteer work at hospitals. As a healthcare worker, it is imperative to treat others with respect because you never really know what's happening in their life. Unfortunately, that nurse didn't heed this lesson which impacted my dad's ability to receive proper treatment and delayed his recovery. As a future doctor, I want to be proactive and offer the best options for those less fortunate than myself; I want to treat everyone with kindness and respect and do my best to see that everyone that enters my practice feels cared about. As a future doctor, I hope to help close the health gap due to classism, financial disparities, and the unkind stereotypes thrown onto people like me.