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Though, the Yakima Valley benefit from the medical school tremendously creating untouchable jobs, there was an incident where the school denied a man from attending the medical school because he was deaf. In the article, "Deaf man sues PNWU for pulling His Acceptance" by Ted Skroback explains how the deaf student plans on suing the university. Zach Featherson 's dream is to help deaf medical students. Featherson said, " I am the same person they admitted-I want to begin my education, become a top-notch doctor, and serve the deaf community. There are hundreds of deaf medical professionals all over the country over a hundred deaf doctors, who all made it through their programs and are serving patients without incident." This incident may cause

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