(vehicle engines running) SILVIA GARCIA MURCIA: I come from an underserved community, in different ways.

I was born in Honduras, grew up there.

I turned 17 in the U.S. and when I came here I was placed in foster care too, and I saw the necessity, and I volunteer a lot in clinics like CrossOver, Health Brigade, care clinics in VCU, and I saw the need, and especially in the medical community.

I was helping patients with documents, and I was interpreting different things.

I remember a lot of my journey from Honduras to the United States.

I spent two months from Honduras to here.

I was walking, busses, in trailers.

I was 16 years old, I had no idea what I was doing, but I spent, we crossed Mexico, in Sonoran Desert.

We walked for five days.

That was the hardest part, I think.

Not only because, you know walking five days, we didn't have water or food, but seeing people dying.

That was when I realized like, oh my gosh, what did I do?

You know, like why did I get into it?

I get sad every time I think about, especially my trip from Honduras to the U.S.

But at the same time, I think if I hadn't done that, I wouldn't be where I am.

Right, there's no way.

>>Si, thank you, Matt.

I am a physician assistant here at Daily Planet.

I go to three different clinics now.

I come here to Southside, where we have a huge like Hispanic population.

Probably like 98% of my patients are Hispanic.

And I love that.

I feel comfortable with them, and I know they feel comfortable with me.

Even now that I speak English, and I'm still learning.

But you know, I speak better.

And when I meet someone that speaks Spanish, I'm like, "Oh you speak Spanish, okay."

Like I feel more confident, because that's my first language.

(phone dialing) There's some words that you can express that in Spanish but not in English.

When they say about like stomach pain, and they have all these names for stomach, uterus, you know, low abdomen, they have a lot of words and like 'matriz', they say "me duele la matriz" And I think it changed a lot.

You know, like the treatment.