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Article

The Cuban Physician in the United States

Authors: GEORGINA ABISELLAN MD, JOSEPH H. FISHBEIN MD

Abstract

AbstractThree thousand Cuban physicians have been integrated into the American medical community. Their exodus and migration is historically unique and therefore endowed with singular psychosocial dynamics. Described are the sociopolitical motivations for their departure from Cuba and the conflicts generated by a dynamic interplay of divergent value systems and cultures.

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