2011, Number 4
New survey results enhance Cuba’s NCD surveillance: Mariano Bonet, MD. Director, National Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology Institute
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ABSTRACT
“The family would like you to become a doctor,” were the somber words delivered by Dr Mariano Bonet’s father at the wheel of their old Mercury ‘55, as he drove his son along a dirt road into the Cuban countryside. At 17, the young Bonet was trying to decide between two careers that excited him: medicine and engineering. But that drive was the turning point, and he enrolled in medical school that year.