Hippocrates Meets Fidel, and Even U.S. Students Enroll

This is from a NYT article, as the headline suggests, about medical training in Cuba and some Americans who are getting their medical degrees there. Its a fine article, but something jumped out at me.

Tahirah Benyard, 27, a first-year student from Newark, said it was Cuba’s offer to send doctors to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, which was rejected by the Bush administration, that prompted her to take a look at medical education in Cuba.

“I saw my people dying,” she said. “There was no one willing to help. The government was saying everything is going to be fine.”

Read it all. You may come away with a new appreciation of Fidel Castro and discover Che Guevara was a doctor. If you come away with a new distain and hatred for Bush, well that's just fine too.