Cuba legitimately has one of the best medical education systems in the world. It's one of the regime's successes. On the other hand, many of these doctors are

Cuba legitimately has one of the best medical education systems in the world. It's one of the regime's successes. On the other hand, many of these doctors are sent to work in Cuba's allies, where most of their pay goes to the Cuban government. At home, their medical system goes through some pretty rough patches from time to time, and you have people who need to turn to the black market to buy the iodine necessary for disinfection of their own surgeries.