The U.S. has been facing with a critical physician shortage for the past twenty years. Bad quality of healthcare is one of the major problems that physician shortage. In fact, the medical system are not really short on doctors. They always have a backup international medical graduate (IMG) team. They are foreign medical doctors who have successfully passed all the standardization examinations of the U.S. medical board and are eligible to practice medicine right away. Yet, the government hesitates to utilize this great resource, and as such the quality of healthcare is steadily declining.
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