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When your values conflict with your family's sacrifices

My parents sacrificed everything to put me through medical school and now I want to work with underserved populations instead of making the money they expected from their investment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The burden of intergenerational mobility creates tension between personal ethics and familial obligation.

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