WHILE 12-hour weekend shifts for nurses are typical, it's not common to do it while also attending medical school full-time.
But that's what Mazvita Ethel Simoyi did during her first year at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, commuting every weekend to a hospital in Washington, D.C. to help pay for her education.
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