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Immigrant Doctors Provide Better Care, According to a Study of 1.2 Million Hospitalizations
February 03, 2017
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Approximately one in four practicing physicians [ https://members.aamc.org/eweb/upload/14-086%20Specialty%20Databook%202014_711.pdf ] in the U.S. completed medical school abroad. Many international medical graduates come to the U.S. for residency and then stay, agreeing to work in areas where there’s a shortage of health professionals. Studies [ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27119328 ] have shown that internationally trained doctors are more likely to practice medicine in rural and underserved areas. In many instances, the doctors end up working in these areas for long periods of time.
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https://hbr.org/2017/02/immigrant-doctors-provide-better-care-according-to-a-study-of-1-2-million-hospitalizations [with comments]

Patients treated by international doctors have lower death rates
2-Feb-2017
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/b-ptb020117.php

Quality of care delivered by general internists in US hospitals who graduated from foreign versus US medical schools: observational study
03 February 2017
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j273

Trump's Immigration Order Could Make It Harder to Find Doctors

03 Feb 2017
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/trump-immigration-order-hard/2017/02/03/id/771936/ [with comments]

JimLur -- please do let us know what your Iranian doctor thinks of Trump's executive order travel/refugee/immigration ban once you've had the chance to ask him about it -- thx

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