Immigration and Pediatrics Are in My Blood … the AAP Embraces Both

1. Mobeen H. Rathore, MD, CPE* 1. *Editorial Board Member, Pediatrics in Review My family wanted me to go to the United Kingdom for postgraduate training. I wanted to come to the United States because I believed that America offered the best training and the latest in medicine. My family relented. My family is no stranger to immigration. The paternal side of my family hails from Rajasthan, India. In the late 1400s our clan reverted to Islam and had to move. Being a martial race of India, we migrated to Kashmir as part …