1. Cuba's medical education is world-famous: excellent, and free, and the obligation is that you have to go work in underserved populations for a while (which is Frank's briar patch). I don't know why you say their medical system is a farce: they struggle along, because they are poor and they have some awkward structures, but in terms of health care delivery to the whole population, they do so well that they export doctors. And. again, the medical school there is the jewel of the Spanish-speaking world.(Tangent: while my stepmother was working in Africa, she said the Cuban doctors were extremely popular everywhere they went)2. He has some Spanish, and there's a built-in intensive Spanish course. 3. As Frank says, Mexico, though it has good medical schools also, is "on fire" (his words): a state of open civil war in several states, and lesser chaos in other states. In comparison, Cuba looks really peaceful. On the plus side for Mexico, there are also serve-the-poor components to its programs. A transition is coming up for Cuba, but it looks to me like there's a good chance it will not be horrific, just nerve-wracking. We'll see. Anyway, he's also looking at universities in Europe and Canada.
He's talking about maybe not coming back (except to renew his passport and visit, maybe), but nobody's silly enough to hold him to ideas he's throwing around.
It's a weird thing for me, really. I've never had an empty nest for more than a few days at a time, and I've only been off the North American continent twice. So seeing my firstborn contemplating a life in the big world is just -- unsettling. I'm proud of the fact that he's thinking about it in terms of being helpful someplace, but gee. It'll be strange.
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He's talking about maybe not coming back (except to renew his passport and visit, maybe), but nobody's silly enough to hold him to ideas he's throwing around.
It's a weird thing for me, really. I've never had an empty nest for more than a few days at a time, and I've only been off the North American continent twice. So seeing my firstborn contemplating a life in the big world is just -- unsettling. I'm proud of the fact that he's thinking about it in terms of being helpful someplace, but gee. It'll be strange.