We are already there. When I have a position to hire, about 80% of the docs available for interview are foreign medical grads. And that is after my recruiter has weeded down the list American medical graduates are for the most part going into a few lucrative subspecialties ( when you graduate deeply in debt you cannot choose a practice that will barely hang on because of Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates and.govt regulation). 25 years ago when I graduated the brightest of the bright vied for places in internal medicine residencies. Now we are lucky if we can find american educated internists to hire - and that is for hospital physicians. The number and caliber of those going into primary care is far worse. The medical system is in big trouble -— Obama care may be the final nail in the coffin. Get ready to get your care from docs who do not speak English well— or from their nurses and PAs as the doc wil
L be stretched to thin to actually see you...... / rant off.
Just like the UK system.
Remember those lovely terrorists who attempted to blow the subway - and wound up crashing at the airport in Scotland?
They were “doctors”