Thousands of Mds practicing in U.S...

[busterbrown]

are from Countries under Trump’s Travel Ban’...

Click on to this link...Interesting ...like 40% of rural Mds are from foreign countries

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/doctors-patients-reel-trumps-immigration-ban/

[Warpy]

1. Not just MDs. I've worked with hospital workers at every level

from all over the planet. I counted 23 languages in an ESL poster at Mass. General.

I loved it, it was very stimulating having people with completely different viewpoints as coworkers.

[smirkymonkey]

5. I spoke w/ my doctor at MGH last week who was so upset about this.

She said that dozens of her colleagues in her department alone were threatened by this ban. They were absolutely disgusted. MGH has been rated the best hospital in the nation for years. And they want to send these fine doctors back "to where they came from"?

It's absolute bullshit!!

[Norbert9]

2. I'm an American born doctor

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And I'm looking to practice in other countries. So yeah, imagine how immigrants feel.

[exboyfil]

3. Lots of engineers as well

My area.

Our medical pipeline should generate more doctors though. I think we could have a 1/3 more doctors with the number of qualified applicants that cannot get into medical school. The problem in the pipeline appears to be residency. Since residents are overworked anyway, it only takes finding money to scale back residency hours and having that extra workload handled by new residency spots.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/266610-shortage-of-residency-slots-may-have-chilling-effect-on-next

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2016/11/05/why-its-okay-for-medical-residents-to-work-28-hours-straight/#6774c44d47c2

[NotThisTime]

4. A full 2/3rd's of Boston researcher's are foreign born.