For years, Harvard professor ERAM ALAM has been looking at the role immigrant physicians play in US healthcare. We fill a chronic shortage of new domestic MDs with doctors trained elsewhere. Nearly a quarter of our physicians went to medical school outside the U.S. or Canada . We talk about her book, THE CARE OF FOREIGNERS: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare. I feel this is one of those issues where too many of us either don’t recognize its existence or don’t realize its implications. You can learn more at eramalam.com
