A fourth-year medical student at the Einstein College of Medicine spoke with News 12 about her experience helping patients while wearing a hijab.

Yssra Soliman, who has worn a hijab since the eighth grade, was afraid patients would refuse her care because of her dress and religion.

But just when she thought her fears would be realized, she was surprised.

"People would try to speak to me in Spanish, people ask if I'm Jewish – people really don't know what my background is,” says Soliman. “People who are also Muslim are thrown off by what country my family is from."

Soliman wrote about it in a blog post that has hundreds of likes.

"A patient’s mom stopped me and she was Hasidic Jewish and said, I'm so proud of you as a Jewish girl working so hard to become a doctor,” she told News 12. “I had to tell her I'm not Jewish, I'm Muslim and my parents emigrated from Egypt. She just laughed and said…I'm still really proud of you."

She says she wants to make sure not to romanticize the hijab, but feels it’s what makes her different and that gives her an edge.