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Dr. Donna Barhorst, Pediatrician

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Channel: IntermountainParents · 2011 · Education

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My name is Donna Barhorst.  I'm a pediatrician at Northern Utah Pediatrics.  I decided to go into medicine because I really enjoyed science and biology, and I wanted to do something that I could interact with patients or people when I did it.  Initially I was going to be a lab tech, but then I decided I really wanted more one on one daily interaction with people.  No one in my family had ever been in medicine so it was sort of a new idea to do that.  So I just never had been around physicians or nurses or anything.  So it kind of was a leap of trying something totally different.

I decided to go into pediatrics because I really enjoy taking care of families, parents and their children.  And all my experience prior to residency had to do with doing jobs that had kids - basically camp counselor, or life guard, or those things.  I'm one of 6, so always I grew up with lots of people around and lots of chaos, so the noisiness of children doesn't bother me at all.  I like that, but then I also like the urgent care, I like taking care of sick children.  Part of it is just having been on a reservation, we had a lot of very critically ill kids, doing some ER time, so it's being able to do something and have a good result, have a good outcome.  That's the nice thing about our practice is we still do that with our kids care, and we still take care of our in-patient patients.  So we have our kids that are more ill.  And it keeps you thinking, keeps you more challenged, keeps you learning.  So that's why I like that.

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