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The onerous tests and often duplicative training these doctors must go through are intended to make sure they meet this country’s high quality standards, which American medical industry groups say are unmatched elsewhere in the world. Some development experts are also loath to make it too easy for foreign doctors to practice here because of the risk of a “brain drain” abroad.

The same thing applies to all STEM fields.

What a stupid article even for the NY times. Do any reporters actually do any research on what they write any more? US docs have to prove language skills, pass licensing tests, and do residency again if they want to practice almost anywhere else in the first world and most of the non first world. Every country that matters requires the same things. The US quality standards are not even close to being unmatched elsewhere in the world.

Stop the "commie complaints". We have a great system just the way it is. For example, I hear there's a good deal being offered at this hospital.... only $55,000 for a snakebite. (I think they might have a special going for spiderbites too, at only $35,000.

So what if the young lady is uninsured. I wonder what the hospital is gonna charge her for the "rape treatment" she'll now need for having visited the facility?

http://www.today.com/video/today/52727203/#52727203

U.S residency training is essential for any foreign doc, the way of doing things is different everywhere else, and doesn't equate necessarily to poor care just not appropriate care, for example a Canadian doctor will not order an MRI of your shoulder until its been 6 months of pain for you,
we should not worry about Brain Drain but instead get doctors from countries where English is the language of scientific instruction( India,pakistan, sri lanka, Bangladesh,British colonies in southern Africa) and insentivize their easy entry into our system as long as they participate in research for a given time or serve in underserved areas,

I don't know what the fuss is.
I can't remember the last time I saw a Doctor named Bob Smith.