Cuba-trained U.S. physicians fear prejudice back home

Cuba-trained U.S. physicians fear prejudice back home
By Caribbean Net News
Updated Aug 9, 2007, 05:15 pm
HAVANA, Cuba (Caribbean Net News) - Eight Americans who graduated July 24 from medical school in Cuba fear prejudice back home, but said their education, training and dedication should help them overcome any obstacle.
“It’s inevitable we’ll be facing and confronting prejudice when we get there due to the political situation between our two countries, but when we can show we’re well prepared technically, those prejudices will fall away,” one of the doctors, Teresa Thomas, told a press conference.
She and seven other Americans are among 1,842 doctors from 30 countries to have graduated from Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine, after six years of study under a full scholarship program granted by Cuba.
Applicants to the school are chosen from poor areas around the world by Pastors for Peace, a special ministry of the U.S.-based Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization headed by Reverend Lucius Walker.
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