Growing up, Naomi Lawrence-Reid, MD, always knew she wanted to be a doctor.
Her career as a physician looks different from what she pictured as a medical student, but she said she wouldn’t have it any other way.
After medical school, Lawrence-Reid completed a pediatrics residency and then began working in a pediatric emergency medicine department.
“I got excellent experience,” Lawrence-Reid told Healio. “You learn to work fast, to work hard, to make decisions quickly about whether a child is sick or not or needs a procedure or intervention. But after about 3 years, I knew that was not my forever