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...would like to contribute to changing that. So while he was accepted to nine U.S. medical schools last year after graduating from Miami's Florida International University, he decided to stay at FIU and join the first class of its new Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine - largely because the school focuses on training primary-care physicians who hook up with the kind of communities Lau hails from. In fact, under the innovative FIU curriculum that started in August, those neighborhoods are laboratories for students like Lau, who, starting in their second year, will go into disadvantaged pockets like Miami Gardens...
When Patricio Lau came to the U.S. from Nicaragua eight years ago as a teenager, it didn't take him long to notice one of his new home's more glaring paradoxes. Despite the country's vast 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...
...most experts, should be at least 50-50, as it is in countries like Canada. But the number of U.S. medical students opting for primary-care careers has plummeted 52% over the past decade, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Fewer than 10% of the 2008 graduating class of medical students opted for a career in primary care, and only 42% of residency positions for family medicine are being filled today, leaving a deficit of some 1,500 a year...
...well be more medical schools like FIU's, which has 43 students in its first class (chosen from more than 3,000 applicants) and hopes to train almost 300 per year. One of them, Pete Leahy, 23, a University of Notre Dame graduate, had planned to become a pediatric oncologist. But after taking a year off to work at a health clinic for the poor in Puerto Rico, he's leaning toward primary care. "After that experience," says Leahy, "I think I'd rather be the doctor who impacts a patient's health behavior before it ends up impacting...
...MAIDSTONE There are the Hamptons, and then there is East Hampton, and at the heart of that supremely exclusive enclave of class and culture is the Maidstone, TheMaidstone.com, the completely overhauled new incarnation of the historic Maidstone Arms. Originally built in 1740, the 19-room hotel was taken over last year by Swedish hotelier Jenny Ljungberg, whose family owns Stockholm's rock-'n'-roll-cool Lydmar Hotel. Ljundberg has transformed the Maidstone's interiors, replacing dated nautical motifs with a contemporary Nordic-inspired aesthetic, filled with natural light and brightly patterned furnishings. A pair of Swedish and American chefs creates...