With a shortage of Latino doctors in the country, two UCLA medical students known as the 'Foos in Medicine' are using social media to inspire others to pursue a…
With a shortage of Latino doctors in the country, two young men are using social media to inspire others to pursue a career in medicine.," Irvin Garcia Leal and Alexis Ivan Aleman are third-year medical students at UCLA. They met at an event and began posting videos on social media using the expression"foo," a shortened version of"fool" commonly used by people around Southern California to refer to one another.
One day, they decided to replace their stethoscopes with their smartphones, giving rise to the idea of sharing their story and motivating future heroes in white coats -- heroes with Spanish surnames.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news."It makes me very proud, and yes, I get emotional," Damian said.
"When I was a child, there were times when immigration would come to the apartments where we lived, and my mom would tell me to hide," he recalled."We would go under the bed.""I decided to continue and put in even more effort," Garcia Leal said.Damian knows that her son's sacrifice will pay off, and it will be exactly what she would have wanted when visiting a doctor.
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