Last month I met Dr David Feldman. He was a guest at the University Club, where I'm staying during my writing residency. When I first saw him he was contemplating a bus schedule and wondering how the country had changed in the 30 years since he'd been a St George's University (SGU) medical student during the Revolution."I decided to attend medical school in Grenada after graduating from college with a degree in biology," Feldman recalled in an e-mail interview after he returned to New York in February. "I applied to medical school in the US but received rejection letters from each one. I decided I wanted to become a doctor more than anything else.
"Life was very tough for us and the Grenadian people in 1982-83. It was difficult studying every night since the lights always went out at night and we studied by flashlight. The roads to school were unpaved and I often fell while riding my motorcycle to school."We had shortages of food, since food would often spoil without electricity. I lost a tremendous amount of weight while living in Grenada and went to bed hungry every night. The grocery shelves had very little food since Grenada did not import much food. Most of the food at that time came from the former Soviet Union, Cuba or South America. Meat was a novelty item since we had very little due to unreliable refrigeration.
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