[johniegrad]

It's also important to note that as doctors move from being employers to employees, they find themselves dealing with the same economic pressure from foreign labor

Also, nonsense. Foreign medical graduates are recruited to practices where American candidates can't be recruited or where demand outpaces supply for the American graduates.

[Alberta's Child]

Foreign medical graduates are recruited to practices where American candidates can't be recruited or where demand outpaces supply for the American graduates.

Right. And why does the demand outpace the supply?

[bella1]

"Also, nonsense. Foreign medical graduates are recruited to practices where American candidates can't be recruited or where demand outpaces supply for the American graduates”.

As a home-based medical transcriptionist I can attest that the above statement is true. I work for many foreign-born docs. Interestingly, one in particular is very vocal in his opposition to Obama care.

[PapaBear3625]

Foreign medical graduates are recruited to practices where American candidates can't be recruited or where demand outpaces supply for the American graduates.

Let me fix that for you: Foreign medical graduates are recruited to practices where American candidates can't be recruited at the pay of foreign candidates or where demand outpaces supply (at the pay of foreign candidates) for the American graduates.

Doctors are about to get the same treatment that software developers and engineers got under H1B.