Love at First Sight–With Medicine: The Immigrant Story

Growing up in Kyiv, Ukraine with a mathematician father and physicist mother, Tetyana Odarich was expected to follow in her dad’s footsteps. “Math was Her Highness in our household,” says the outspoken and energetic resident of Vancouver, Washington.

Odarich enrolled in a math program at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute but was soon diverted during an unusual date with her boyfriend, a medical student at National Medical University.

Her boyfriend invited her to a class at an inpatient mental health clinic. He told Odarich to don a lab coat and pretend she was a doctor.

Read the story, posted on The Immigrant Story: https://theimmigrantstory.org/medicine/