Word: chinandega
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...wealth and medical resources, the working-class Miami neighborhood where his family settled had scant access to family physicians - and most people saw a doctor only when a costly emergency hit. To Lau, it didn't seem much different from the situation back in his impoverished Nicaraguan hometown of Chinandega. "Miami has a lot of problems, but the biggest is that too many people don't get primary medical care," says Lau, now 23. "There's a bit of a mind-set that being a doctor here means taking care of pretty people on pretty beaches...