David, a medical resident was Uruguayan of Jewish origin. He was born in Uruguay and had his early education there. Since there was no suitable medical school for him in Uruguay, he went to Israel to study medicine. He learned Hebrew, the official language of Israel for this purpose. He was accepted in Brooklyn after having graduated from medical school in Israel. Therefore, he spoke Spanish (his mother tongue), Hebrew and English.
Contrary to expectations, nobody loved him; nurses, lab technicians or even medical students. I guess it was because he was too smart to do every perplexing routine work as a resident. He did only things that he thought necessary. He was thrown out of the program in his second year. I had been so sure that David was tough enough to survive any residency program in the U.S.

Jose was a short but muscular and a macho-type Hispanic resident in family medicine from Puerto Rico. He graduated from Harvard Medical School. Most people admired him "Oh!" they replied when told so.
Ones who didn’t say "Oh!" also seemed impressed. There was and is a system called affirmative action in the U.S. A certain amount of minority students are admitted to colleges and universities in U.S. Nonetheless it was certainly very hard to graduate from prestigious Harvard Medical School. For Jose, though, enduring poverty was much harder than the study of medicine. Life as an undergraduate was rather easy because of a student loan. However, as a resident he had to pay back his student loan and also financially support his family. He was sometimes late for a round or even absent from the hospital because of the moonlighting. Since I was the chief resident at my third year, those incidents were first reported to me. I always settled those as generously as possible because I knew his financial situation. Jose also knew my intension and thanked me at times.