America’s growing shortage of doctors could worsen under new immigration restrictions that are making it more expensive for hospitals to recruit foreign medical professionals, according to a new interview published by Analyst News.
The article features Eram Alam, a Harvard historian of medicine and author of the book “The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare”.
Alam argues that immigrant doctors – particularly from India and Pakistan – have become essential to the American healthcare system, especially in rural and underserved communities where physician shortages are most severe. [Read more…] about America’s doctor shortage could worsen as immigrant visa costs rise