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Medical Degree and Lebanon

: The 23-year-old actions back up his words, according to The Chronicle Herald. Repeatedly over the last year, Hadhad crossed back into civil war-ravaged Syria from Lebanon to write exams for a medical degree he never got to finish. Yes, he said, as if the answer were obvious. Each time, his parents tried to forbid him from going back. But Wednesday, Hadhad wasn’t studying medicine and he wasn’t organizing to get medical care for his fellow Syrians waiting in Lebanon for a war to end. I told them, ‘I am going, this is my addiction — I am addicted to studying medicine,’ Hadhad said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.