Every time Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft intended to apply to medical school, life got in the way. But after 45 years as a neonatal nurse practitioner, she finally did it, beginning medical school at the age of 69 in 2022.
The pivotal moment came after her husband had a health scare. As she told me on this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” she sat him down and said, “‘Well, honey, you know, this is crazy. You literally almost died. And life is too dang short. What’s on your bucket list?’ And he said, ‘I really want to travel the world.’ And I said, ‘Well, I still want to go to med school.’”