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Who Shall Be Our Doctors?
A Critical Shortage Lies Ahead
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If you enter an American hospital tomorrow, the chances are better than one in four that the resident physician who admits you will be a foreigner. Of the 22,000 resident doctors in American hospitals today, 8,000 are foreigners here on temporary visas. Hospital administrators now advertise regularly in foreign medical journals and send representatives abroad to recruit doctors. Even so, many thousands of hospital positions remain unfilled, and this year between 5,000 and 6,000 doctors are expected from outside the country. But this is only one of the many serious consequences of the present shortage of physicians in the United States.
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