[FITZ]

The relative loss of white males is actually a sign of the decreasing prestige of medicine as a career.

This is the only part that concerns me, neither of the doctors my family uses is white except they are older but it's the change in the type of person interested in becoming a doctor independent of ethnicity. It's all about government regulations, managed care plans, govermnent control.

[cyborg]

I got the impressiont that the author thinks of himself too much. He thinks that something requires a majority presence of white males in it to be respectable, which isn't true. The real concern here and in the UK is increasing government control.

[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.