By Laura P. Ortiz / Guest Columnist I don’t recall exactly how and when I received my calling to go back to school and become a surgical technologist, I just remember that when I got it, it was a physical hunger, an emptiness that constantly consumed me. The more I thought of having a career in which I assisted surgeons in surgical procedures the hungrier I got. Thirteen years ago I was accepted and graduated from the surgical technology program at Del Mar College. I worked as a private surgical technologist with a local orthopedic spine surgeon for five years,…