When I immigrated to the United States to pursue surgical training from Jamaica, I thought I was entering the center of advanced first-world healthcare. In many ways I was right: the U.S. has the most advanced technologies, the top doctors, and cutting edge researchers who are finding cures and fascinating discoveries for some the world's most menacing diseases. But in many other ways, I was naive.
Today, as I complete my fifth year, now as a Chief Surgical Resident at...
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