My Life as a Surgical Technologist — Letter to the Editor

In honor of National Surgical Technology Week, Laura P. Ortiz, an adjunct instructor in Del Mar College’s Surgical Tech program, interviews a recent graduate now working in the field locally By: Laura P. Ortiz, CST, CSFA Mayra Alejandra Aceves, Certified Surgical Technologist at Christus Spohn Hospital Shoreline said that she found herself intrigued by the medical field since she was a teenager doing rotations at Memorial Hospital while attending Foy H. Moody High School. But it wasn’t until speaking with her sister in law, who was a surgical technologist, that she decided that this was the field she wanted to…