WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.800 They were looking for physicians to come and train here. 00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:15.800 So the idea was to get this opportunity to come through. Yes, we knew that it was totally--culture was totally different. 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:27.000 But when I started to enter into higher level of education and wanted to go to better schools, community hospitals were open, welcoming. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:35.500 But you wanted to go to university hospitals--and that was difficult to get into. I did put a lot of effort, but then people would say, 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:38.500 "Oh you are a foreign medical graduate. You won't get that." 00:00:38.500 --> 00:00:46.600 There was one Doctor Day in Pittsburgh, and I went down asking a hundred times. In those days there was no cell phone. 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:56.000 Trying to put call in and call him. So, eventually he gave--his secretary said, "Dr. Vidyasagar why 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:05.400 do you think you will get a seat here? We have three, four American graduates, and you're from India. Don't expect too much." 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:13.400 And then I went down, and calling, went down and calling, and from October to March, April, then finally gave me a job. 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:21.200 When I went there everybody was wondering, how did I get the job? How did I know the-- But the persistence paid off.