LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — Nevada is opening a new pathway for foreign trained doctors to practice medicine in the state.

Back in Cuba, Dr. Jose Alberto Rodriguez spent years treating patients with complex conditions from diabetes to infectious diseases, but when he immigrated to Las Vegas, none of that mattered. In order to practice medicine again, he would have to start over.

“I was working in the kitchen as a cook, you know, washing dishes and mopping the floor, frying chicken, I also drove for Uber, and I did a lot of things to survive in the first years in here in America,” Rodriguez said.

That fight to survive while dreaming of one day practicing again is finally paying off for Rodriguez. Governor Joe Lombardo signed Senate Bill 124, creating a path for foreign trained doctors to earn

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