[Iwo Jima]

It's all about government regulations, managed care plans, govermnent control.

I think you're right. Many white males are leaving medicine because they simply will not tolerate the restrictions being placed by managed care/insurance/gov't on how they care for their patients. In my experience, foreign born doctors don't really have a problem with this.

It's not that the HMOs, etc. seek out or even prefer foreign doctors necessarily. It's more that the rules which they make the doctors adhere to cause the white doctors to say "screw that" and do something else, while the foreign doctors just go along with it.

[FITZ]

That's what I think it is --- many of the foreign doctors come from countries that have socialized medicine and are pretty comfortable with the idea of it.

American doctors don't want the restrictions being placed on them --- restrictions that basically turn them into technicians looking up a set of managed care plans they must use.