I knew a young gal who was graduating from Emory Medical School. She had signed up to do a one year tour in Africa, I don't recall which country.
I tried to talk her out of it, citing her risk of malaria, AIDS, and her getting kidnapped/raped etc. But she was determined to go.
She only lasted 8 months. She said the country was corrupt. She told me that at one point, her clinic got a $250K grant from the Red Cross. The next week the Vice President of the country was driving around in a new Mercedes. The next week, the President had a new Bentley. The clinic only saw a few thousand bucks of the Red Cross grant.
She said that country was hopelessly corrupt, and she gave up on them, and came back to start a medical practice in America.
However, she did not get malaria, that's the good news.
