You know there is an unwritten statistic that if children take a break and don’t go into college straight from high school, 9 times out of 10 they will never go to college and if they do won’t finish. Praise God that statistic didn’t apply to Shay Taylor-Allen who postponed college after high school. Shay Taylor-Allen worked at Yale Hospital for 10 years as a janitor, but now she’s heading to the residency program at Yale, becoming a resident not only in the hospital she previously worked in, but also where she was born.
Shay Taylor-Allen postponed attending college after high school to help her family financially, before becoming a medical student at Howard University. At 18 years old took the cleaning job fresh out of high school, simply as a way to pay her bills. She was years away from realizing her future career as a doctor; in fact, back then, she hadn’t even determined whether or not she wanted to get an undergraduate degree. Working while enduring a house fire and her mother suffering from unknown illness God moved. Shay Taylor reached out to the people she was cleaning for help then with their help realized her destiny.
“I was working full-time as a janitor because around that time also my mom got sick, and she was in and out of hospital,” “They couldn’t figure out what was going on with her.”
“I started Googling how to become a doctor and I just went on from there,”
Shay Taylor-Allen, who quit the cleaning job as soon as she was accepted to Howard University medical school in 2021, when she heard from the head of the hospital shortly before starting classes. “She was like, ‘Well, I hope that you come back as a resident one day,'” Now those words are coming to fruition. On March 20, Shay Taylor-Allen found out she matched into an anesthesiology residency program at Yale Hospital, the same place where she used to work as a janitor.
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