Dr. Wayne Pernell studied biology and exercise science to become a physical therapist, but an externship at a PT clinic changed his mind. Working as a technician, guiding injured patients through recovery, he realized this hands-on work was his actual calling, not a stepping stone to something else.
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And I'm forgetting now, even. Wow. I think it was. Oh, exercise science. Yes, that was it. And so biology and exercise science, which is typically when you're going to PT school, which was in my plan at the time, you. That's what. That's the combo. That's the stack that you want. You want biology and you want exercise science. And so I ended up doing an externship in kinesiology after I graduated and I was basically working a physical therapy clinic, which I'm so grateful for. So I spent a year there and I thought it was gonna be my launching plan in PT school, but it ended up being my launching pad for my purpose because it was working there as a tech who was basically. I was a person who was carrying out the orders of the physical therapist and I was basically the one who was guiding the people guiding the patients who came in injured, whether, like busted knees, bad back, whatever it was they were.