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People are accustomed to having foreign physicians, other-than-white physicians and certainly other-than-Anglo-Saxon physicians. Nearly 30% of US primary care
by falsestprophet 11y ago
People are accustomed to having foreign physicians, other-than-white physicians and certainly other-than-Anglo-Saxon physicians.
Nearly 30% of US primary care physicians trained abroad.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/health/12chen.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/health/12chen.html
Only 8.7% of the US are descended from the English (Anglo-Saxons)
Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf
That said, the US could easily recruit physicians from Europe including the UK so you may very well get more Anglo-Saxon physicians!
- secondtimeuse 11y agoGood luck with that, considering europe already gets huge number of physicians from India. http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/india-biggest-exporter-of-doctors-nurses-to-europe-report-1260003 http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/india-biggest-exporter-of...
- falsestprophet 11y agoIt doesn't follow that because many European physicians come from India that few European physicians would choose to work in the United States.