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When the doctors-to-be from Camden wore their white coats outside this month for the first time, a young man pulled his car over and shouted a question: Why are you guys wearing those doctors' costumes? <\/p>\n
Samantha and Susana Collazo recognized a former classmate from Brimm Medical Arts High School in the Whitman Park section of the city. <\/p>\n
\"Oh, we're medical students,\" replied the Collazos, twins from Cramer Hill who this fall became the first Camden residents to attend Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. <\/p>\n
\"And he said, 'No way! That's so cool!' He was so happy,\" Samantha Collazo said. <\/p>\n
Since returning home for medical school, the sisters have had several such encounters in which they've been encouraged, praised, and supported by strangers, long-lost classmates, neighbors. <\/p>\n
There also have been less happy times, when they've seen the deep need for accessible health care in the city. <\/p>\n
While volunteering in a halfway house in the city a few summers ago, Samantha and Susana Collazo were stunned to find themselves serving people they knew and had grown up with. <\/p>\n
\"It was kind of a shock, because we were all exposed to the same environment, but a few of us fell a little behind,\" said Samantha Collazo, then a Rutgers University-New Brunswick student spending summer 2012 in the Premedical Urban Leaders Summer Enrichment (PULSE) Program at Cooper Medical School. <\/p>\n
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