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She Cleaned Hospital Floors at Yale for a Decade. Now She's Returning as a Doctor

Shay Taylor's journey from janitor to anesthesiology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital was driven by her mother's misdiagnosis and a decade of self-directed education.

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Shay Taylor had long been a standout student, finishing in the top 10 percent of her class at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut. But without a roadmap, or a family history of navigating higher education, she went straight to work after graduation in 2010. “I just didn’t know what to do,” Taylor, 32, tells TODAY.com in an interview. “My mom was a single mom, and we didn’t know anything about financial aid or applications. We were…

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She Cleaned Hospital Floors at Yale for a Decade. Now She's Returning as a Doctor

Shay Taylor went from janitor to doctor at Yale New Haven Hospital, inspiring millions with her viral match day reactions and journey into medicine.

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