Teaching hospital

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When he got the chance to expand his medical skills through an aid program with Finland, Pedro jumped at it. He had never traveled overseas in his life. He could never have afforded it. He had come from the favelas of Salvador and had become a doctor through brilliance, sheer luck, and a scholarship from the government. When he completed his studies, he could have become a plastic surgeon, catering to rich American bimbos who traveled to Brazil because the surgery was cheaper, but he didn't. He went back to the community he came from and provided his services for close to nothing.

For the five years that Pedro had been working, he had also been teaching many of the unemployed kids the basics of medicine. He had gotten to the stage where he believed he could trust his clinic to them for the six months of the training period. Other than the clinic he had nothing else to hold him in Brazil.

It was pouring with rain when Pedro arrived at Salvador airport. He had been driven there in a communal truck and was now trying to get his final goodbyes over as quickly as possible so that his meager luggage wouldn't be completely ruined by the water. Between the walls of water and the frantic huggings and rehuggings by his friends and patients from the favela, he felt a strange calmness, like the eye of a storm, regarding his upcoming trip to Finland.

/me passes the baton