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Well, my name is Rodrigo Sanchez.
I'm from Colombia, from Medellin, the second most beautiful city.
My profession in Colombia was surgeon. I'm a Doctor specialized in surgery.
Then I studied Hospital Administration in order to become the director of a hospital.
In fact, I directed a hospital for 15 years
and before that, I worked as a surgeon for the first 10 years.
I did not wish to move to the US
because I was fine in Colombia, I worked as a Doctor
with a modest salary, yet it allowed me to live well with my family.My wife and my three sons.
I worked in governmental entities, which perhaps was my biggest mistake.
The governmental entities in Colombia are supremely politicized, they're strongly linked to politics.
Those who don't work under the expectations of politicians are going to encounter problems. I had them in fact.
They are very corrupted.
In my last experience as a director, I was politically persecuted.
That was in between 2002 to 2007.
I was threatened, and accused to belong to different organizations, which I, of course, didn't of belong to.
Sometimes, extreme right, sometimes extreme left.
I wasn't allowed to work freely despite I was doing the right thing from an administrative point of view.
Finally, the politicians in my department obtained what they wanted. I left the institution.
I was persecuted. I had to come to the US.
Fortunately, after a year of my traumatic experience, I obtained the residency in the US
and came with all the difficulties that implies to come to the US at my age, learning a new language, to study,
and try to start a new life.
I still expect to seat the medical exams to validate my career in this country,
in order to practice medicine. I still have those expectations, I keep studying.
Fortunately, my sons have adapted well in this country.
Without any doubts, if I spoke English fluently, if I could read it, and write it with all ease,
I would've taken the medical exams in this country, and I think I would've passed them.