Kansas City University celebrates graduation of 400 future doctors [Video]

Graduation season is officially underway in the metro, with Kansas City University having its ceremonies this weekend. Four hundred future doctors will walk across the stage, each with a story to tell. Regan Hill’s story started 20 years ago. “I wanted to be Buzz Lightyear,” he said with a laugh. “Standing on top of the coffee table.” He may have been dreaming of space exploration but lived in Children’s Mercy Hospital for six months. “I had leukemia when I was a kid,” said Hill.Hill made it, graduated high school, attended the University of Missouri, and ultimately became a Kansas City University student. Next month, at 26, he’ll begin his residency in Phoenix. He hopes to be a pediatric oncologist, like the physicians who treated him 20 years ago.”I feel like it gave me an appreciation for the kind of impact that physicians, nurses, everybody involved in, like the care of …