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Though medicine has traditionally been a high-paying profession, Flier noted the “recent trend that starting salaries in medicine are lagging increases in educational debt.” He said that he has firsthand experience with the costs of medical education because his daughter recently attended medical school...
Though medicine has traditionally been a high-paying profession, Flier noted the "recent trend that starting salaries in medicine are lagging increases in educational debt." He has made expanding financial aid a priority since becoming dean last summer, and has said that he has firsthand experience with the costs of medical education because his daughter recently attended medical school...
Encountering those victims firsthand, particularly the teenagers and small children, propelled me and Rosalynn to step up The Carter Center's efforts to eradicate guinea worm disease. The image of the young woman's suffering not only personalized the illness but also forced me to view life for the first time through the eyes of the poor, the powerless and the voiceless and to come to terms with how the quality of their existence affects the world at large. I realized too that I could have done more when I was President to help people in developing countries...
...experienced the siege mentality firsthand when I passed by Hizballah's "media office" in Beirut's southern suburbs to see if I could photograph the grave of its most recent "martyr," Imad Mughniyah - the Hizballah military commander assassinated in Damascus on February 12. It shouldn't have been a big deal: Mughniyah's pictures line the road from the airport into town. But the lady who ran the office looked at us as if we personally had detonated the car bomb that killed...
...stop. I wrote: "I would break up with him!" I was just like, "Move! Move away!" I hope that one was made up. People often ask me things with their kids - and I definitely have ideas - but I don't have my own kids so I don't have firsthand experience...