Does the writing sound native?

Context:
Imagine that you are a talented young scientist in a hot emerging field at the frontier of medicine, having completed your Ph.D. study just recently. Every major medical school in the country went after you. After a hotly contested bidding war, one university won it with a $450k/year offer that no one can refuse. Or so they thought. You declined the offer, just because you wanted to do something more meaningful. You wanted to devote your talent to curing the poor. You wanted to bring the state of art medical technology to underserved, impoverished people who may have never seen a doctor in their lives. You are going back to China.

You get a hero's welcome in China. You get on the front page of the newspaper. You become a star. Except, this story was not true. The Chinese part was but the American part was totally made up, with the unwitting help of an American professor...

More:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/19/947221/-Science,-deception,-and-China:-A-bizarre-case-of-a-job-offer-that-wasnt