[Jim Noble]

Can someone explain why all the doctors are from India and the Middle East?

Canada strictly limits the number of specialists trained, to prevent their cheap primary care medical school graduates from morphing into expensive specialists (if you only have a few trained joint replacement surgeons, you can't do many operations, and you spend less money).

Like any administered pricing/central planning system, however, the targets are never right. The few Canadian MDs who are trained in specialties, like neurosurgery, where the pay differential Canada/USA is 10X or greater have a tendency to emigrate. They can be replaced with Commonwealth (India and Pakistan) MDs, following the same pay gradient (10X Pakistan/Canada).

Most Canadian primary care folks are Canadian, because the pay differential Canada/USA is much smaller.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks for the info. Nice if our government would learn something from others' mistakes, but they seem determined to turn the US into a fusion of the worst features of Canada and Mexico.

I was in college with several premed students: Indian, Vietnamese, Filipino, and one incredibly overachieving Black American. (Only one was born in the U.S.) I guess I was boring, too - and made sure the rent was paid, there was food in the apartment, and turned off the lights and TV after they fell asleep in their books ...

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Post #23: amazing and interesting!