[M. Dodge Thomas]

"The article says four out of 10 NHS doctors are trained abroad!"

"The US heath care system is most heavily dependent on foreign-trained doctors for care in poor and rural areas. The states with the highest rate of such doctors practicing in rural, under served areas were Florida and West Virginia (45 percent), North Dakota (40 percent), and Illinois (39 percent). States with more than 20 percent international medical graduates in rural areas were New York, Kansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina and Texas."

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/nov98/busse11.htm

[donna]

My doctor is from India!

[scrabblehack]

Are they American-born, and then go to med school abroad (I assume for lower academic standards)? Or are they foreigners in the first place?

There is a difference...