CONWAY — “This could be the start of a career, you never know,” said RN Marta Ramsey, clinical educator for Memorial Hospital in North Conway as she and Nurse Practitioner Charisse Hirschfeld guided six teenagers as they sutured supermarket chicken thighs on their own "operating table" outside the hospital's emergency room.
It was all part of the five-day Mount Washington Valley School to Career Partnership’s Health Camp, which wrapped up last Friday.
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