So you want to make a difference in global health?

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Do you want to make a difference in global health? I'm happy to tell you that there are many opportunities available to serve internationally, especially as the world becomes more like a global village. As a professional nurse, I have found global service rewarding and fulfilling. As I write this column, images come to my mind of sitting in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan with an expectant mother suffering from thalassemia, or listening to a Mayan mother in the highlands of Guatemala in a stick-walled, corrugated roofed home talk about life with her newborn and seven other children.