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Dr. Cyril Nkabinde, an intern at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Durban, South Africa, grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor — an ambition he inherited from his mother, whose own dream had been thwarted by apartheid. Nkabinde's goal of working as a family physician in rural KwaZulu-Natal has kept him on track, even as he's watched medical school classmates depart for business careers and superiors quit medicine because of a chronic lack of health care resources. Now, as he prepares to marry a fellow physician, Nkabinde realizes that his dream may not be achievable. "The hope is to go . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Kumar is a resident in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency, Boston.

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