Posted on 02/03/2017 8:17:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven countries will have a detrimental effect on the nation's graduate medical education and the health care system as a whole, two UPMC physicians wrote this week in a major medical journal.
Drs. Ahmad Masri and Mourad Senussi, fellows in UPMC's cardiovascular fellowship training program, examined available data on doctors and students from some of the banned countries, publishing the results Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Trump's order bars U.S. entry of people from the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
By doing these blanket orders, what you effectively do is you block out a lot of really good, hard-working physicians who fill positions that otherwise would be unfilled, Senussi, of Libya, said in an interview. Masri graduated from a university in Jordan
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These doctors are so scary even Somalia and Yemen dont want them.
July 3, 2007, 45 Muslim doctors in UK plot terrorism in UK and US.
That’s been going on for 15+ years...bringing nurses in from Phillipines. ..saw it in Florida in 2000
Sorry - not directed at you but at the article.
Utter nonsense. Let them be educated in their home country
You couldn’t pay me to see a Muslim doctor or some other fuzzy foreigners from various countries that have no ethics or sense of hygiene. At least we still have that freedom here. It would have disappeared under Obamacare.
Carl Denniger is right. Time to start Trust Bsusting our
Healthcare and pharmaceutical companies.
Pittsburgh
UPMC has been able to corner about 80% of the market here in Western PA by buying out hospitals and medical practices over a number of years. It’s as close to a monopoly as one could imagine.
One of the few things I can agree with our Left-Wing Mayor about is that UPMC is NOT a non-profit (he has major issues with the massive amount of property they own which is tax-exempt).
Thanks.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review used to be a right-leaning newspaper when it’s owner Dick Scaife was alive.
Since he assumed room temperature they killed the print edition and went all-virtual. Since then it’s nothing but Leftist propaganda drivel like this item.
Go find yourselves a couple of English princesses to date, and go for a tunnel ride. Prince Andrew has a couple of single daughters.
Yeah, it wasn’t that there weren’t enough nurses - American nurses - it was there weren’t enough nurses willing to work for peanuts.
Yes it does...
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