Ex-President of the Venezuelan Society of Dermatology, Caracas, Venezuela; Adjunct Faculty, Ivy Tech Community College Columbus, Indiana, USA.
Clin Dermatol. 2020 Sep-Oct;38(5):520-522. doi: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2020.05.006. Epub 2020 May 15.
Immigration has been considered a common human behavior, but it is usually the result of severe conditions that force people to leave their countries. For specialized physicians who have invested years of study, training, hard work, and money to establish a successful career, the decision to leave behind everything to start over is as difficult as for the rest of the people. Adapting to a new country requires a good deal of patience, persistence, and resilience to reinvent oneself, exploring and developing new areas, plus using knowledge and experiences previously acquired. This paper reflects the anxieties, fears, and hopes of a dermatologist driven by the dynamics of a migratory process. The reflections are framed with verses of the goddess Fortune, extracted from a medieval Codex, as a way to compare how Fortune's whims can change circumstances to keep us moving upward and downward during our lives.
移民一直被视为一种常见的人类行为，但通常是人们被迫离开自己国家的严重情况的结果。对于那些投入多年时间学习、培训、努力工作和投资的专业医生来说，放弃一切重新开始的决定与其他人一样艰难。适应一个新的国家需要很大的耐心、坚持和韧性，需要重新塑造自己，探索和发展新的领域，同时利用以前获得的知识和经验。本文反映了一位皮肤科医生在移民过程中的焦虑、恐惧和希望。这些反思以中世纪抄本中摘录的女神福尔图娜的诗句为框架，以此来比较福尔图娜的反复无常如何改变环境，在我们的生活中使我们保持向上或向下的状态。
