- I am most passionate about helping somebody
to be at their best.
My name is Rebeccah Rodríguez Regner
and I'm family practice and sports medicine physician.
My favorite part of my work is being able
to build relationships with patents and athletes.
My job is never the same each day.
I've been able to be over at the Elite Training Center
in Chula Vista with Olympic athletes,
I've been backstage with San Diego Ballet dancers
sidelines for football,
I've been able to travel with the Olympic athletes
to Rio at the 2016 Olympics.
That was a dream come true and a wonderful experience.
The first situation that got me into studying--into medicine
was my dad.
He was a medic in the Air Force.
He always used to have that black doctor's bag
in his closet filled with
lots of tape and patches,
and medical scissors.
I remember my sister and brother and we used to hide
in the closet
and bandage each other up.
My ethnic background comes from Spanish, Mexican,
Portuguese, French, Italian, and Irish descend.
With that mix, I think also growing up in Arizona,
we celebrate a little bit more of the Mexican culture
predominantly, everything from our food types
to birthdays,
to slang words or phrases that we grew up with
in Spanish, but we didn't grow up speaking Spanish
in our household.
What made want to study Spanish was
to be connected to my culture.
I felt that there was a lot of opportunity
to communicate with my family members,
especially my grandpa and it's definitely helped
so that I could see patients in the office and treat them
because I know the language.
¿Tienes dolor aquí?
- Sí.
- At three years old, my dad enrolled me in dance
because I used to be really, really shy.
That was the thing that opened the shell.
I was able to interact more with people,
and gain confidence.
It was great to learn about body placement,
and anatomy and physiology.
It gave me a chance to perform and, again, to really gain
a lot of life lessons that I apply today.
Senior year, there is the decision that I had to make
about choosing to pursue dance, acting and singing,
or choose academics and go to college.
I thought about how hard my parents worked.
They each had two jobs that they were working,
and for all the time and energy that they gave to us
to help us,
there's something more that I feel like I could do
in order to help take care of them when I got older.
So choosing medicine helped
to fulfill a lot of different things within my life.
My home now is in Vista, California,
in a country like setting.
My family consists of my husband John,
and our dog Slick.
We have our growths, have different herbs,
so that really makes a great difference for us
when we're cooking, that we have this fresh ingredients.
- You want to try it? - That's good.
For fun, I still like to dance.
[música hip hop]
Whether that is going through choreography in my head,
watching the award shows,
I still trying to do choreography.
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A little bit different route but luckily
I get to still keep that passion going
and be involved with the dancers and sports medicine.
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