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"It's true that friends and former colleagues back home surely have more lenient work schedules and a different perspective on the work-life balance, but I found that there is a different appeal to working in the United States that outweighs long vacations."

"I disregarded established paradigms and suffered for it through the peer-review process. To avoid a barren expanse, I developed side projects and brought along willing medical students and medical residents."

"Whichever path you choose, a research career is a long process that takes years of persistence and patience."

"The bureaucracy around the regulations to have someone come over has become more intensive, tougher, more complicated, and way too expensive."

" I feel I am doing a good job, and I have enough money from grants to continue my work, but I still have to leave."

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