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Tackling Extreme Student Debt

About half of the people who graduate from college this spring will graduate with debt, often in the tens of thousands of dollars. But the debt burden can be even higher for people graduating from medical school. The Association of American Medical Colleges says medical students graduate with an average debt of $100 thousand. Now, a Columbus physician is speaking out about her huge student loan debt in a bid to help other young adults. From Ohio Public Radio station WOSU, Tom Borgerding reports.