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Post by victorayulo on Feb 15, 2017 12:10:44 GMT -4
This article makes an outcry to Trumps 7 country immigration ban but fails to support how such a ban could damage the medical system and doesn't consider the reasons and benefits of the ban in the first place. There are a few questions unanswered by the article. How does a ban impede the ability of the immigrant from banned countries to work in the US? And how many medical workers from the 7 banned countries work in healthcare? These are significant questions that the author ignored. The author repeatedly cited statistics concerning foreign physicians, but of the 195 countries only 7 were banned. The fears and outrage is grossly out of proportion to any possible damage -- if any. The author then neglects to mention the benefits of the ban. This opinion piece is just more of a propaganda/ click-bait article.
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Post by Andrew Johar on Feb 17, 2017 2:15:14 GMT -4
The article asserts that the Trump temporary immigration ban will critically disrupt the medical field. The underserved portions of the clinics are generally served by foreign medical graduates, if these doctors are banned from entering the US, there will be a serious gap in the medical care and that it will felt by those are the ones that need the care the most. With the ban it becomes more important for those that are in the US to pick up the slack and make sure that the underserved are still treated. It becomes the responsibility for everyone in the healthcare field to make sure that we all do more in order to fulfill the oath that we took as physicians and make sure that our patients get the best care that they can.
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Post by Stefan Gordon on Mar 6, 2017 22:28:13 GMT -4
Although I am one of few who support the unpopular immigration reform bill of the Trump administration because I believe in the ensuring the security and safety of the people in this country I do however admit that the immigration ban was hastily deployed and and not well thought out, even members of Trump' s cabinet agree. In regards to healthcare the influence of foreign talent is simply too deeply entrenched and far reaching in our current system, and any action that impedes the travel of foreign nationals would be devastating to countless patients all over the country. The effects would be even worse in areas that are already strained from the supply/demand ratio of physicians to patients. From an ethical standpoint this goes against many of the tenets of patient healthcare that the members of medicine have sworn to protect such as "do no harm to the patient", I would not be surprised if physicians and others working the field of medicine attempt to break this new law in order to protect their patient. The financial burden of course would also be tremendous. Even though the ban would only last 90 days, the fact is many healthcare professionals in this country come from the countries being banned on this list, many of them work in poorer or more rural areas where acute illnesses are more common versus chronic illnesses which are more commonly found in wealthy urban areas which have a higher portion American Medical Graduates. This means that due to the immigration ban statistically patients in poorer rural areas would suffer more rapidly and severely over a short period of time due to the geographic origin of their physicians and the nature of the diseases they tend to have. Not to mention the loss of labour force due to the increase in untreated patients who will eventually succumb to their illlnesses,this would further drive down the economic earning power and productivity in these already impoverished areas. The Trump administration needs to find a healthy balance between safeguarding the American people from foreign enemies without separating us from our friendly foreign allies. While I do not have the perfection solution to achieve this end I do suggest that he at least increase the vetting of foreign immigrants in much more gradual and systematic process that at least gives the citizens and resident aliens at home enough time to adjust to these new changes in immigration policy so that absolute chaos does not consume the American people.
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