I’ll pass that on to my new small medical group’s doctors-- Chan, Ling, and Abou-Kamis-- who have provided great care in 3 disciplines-- after I jettisoned Dr. DuPont (at a major hospital group) for complicating my recovery from surgery-- by refusing to Rx the required medication for 4 days.
The jackass wanted me to make an office visit the day after my second hip-joint replacement.
No thanks Nick, I’ll work with their accents-- and reap their energy and intellect.
jw1
Hard to see how anyone would think that you’re a racist.
Every foreign physician, trained in many cases at the expense of their home country, fills a slot that a US kid could fill. Every foreign physician means that some US kid does not get to become a physician.
Ralph Nader calls it imperialism, to steal medical personnel from 3rd world countries. During the Ebola crisis, E Fuller Torrey, at one time President of the American Psychiatric Association, noted that the crisis was persisting because 2/3 of the physicians from the region, trained at the expense of their country, were in the US, often acting in lower roles. since foreign physicians have a low passage rate on US medical exams.
If you follow scientific fraud, you see a huge number of foreign workers there, and an occasional American. The ethical standards in India, where cheating on exams is a national obsession, persists into the professional realm, unfortunately.
I found the Nader source: The greediness of the brain drain
blog.nader.org/2012/05/09/the-greediness-of-brain-drain/
He discusses how the “brain drain” to the US is unfair to US students: “The U.S. is a major importer of physicians and nurses from places in South Asia, the Middle East and other regions. These are skills far more desperately needed outside the U.S. than here, especially when you consider the undeveloped pool of talent that lies ignored in our country. It is so much easier to have foreign workers educated in countries like Pakistan, being battered by our overflowing war in Afghanistan, than to rescue Americans from their battered high school and put them on a track toward excellence.”
Yuck.
A SCORE!! Another person whose FIRST IMPULSE is to chant “racist, racist, racist”. And why the reflexive “racist” comment? Because the inability to think of a SECOND comment. Too bad.
When a person must discuss health matters with patients, accents matter. I work with medical fellows. Some, those with the really strong accents, cannot follow my discussions. I down-rate them in evaluations.
Actually, Bill Clinton attempted to implement policies that would have punished employers who hired illegal immigrants more harshly, thereby limiting the demand for illegal labor, but the right overturned those policies (which would have punished their donors in the construction industry) in favor of going after the immigrants themselves. In other words, they implemented the same failed attack-the-supply/ignore-the-demand policies which have made the drug war an unmitigated debacle.
We’re in the last days of the Southern Strategy.
TPM:
“Good fences make good neighbors,” he [Jeff Sessions] said in 2006 before he went toe-to-toe with his own party’s President against an immigration reform reform bill.
It’s amazing to me how many complete fucking idiots get the intent of that line wrong.
When Robert Frost wrote that line, Sen. Sessions, it was IRONY. The entire intent of the poem, Mending Wall, is to make the reader question the validity of that notion, not to confirm it.
Yes, Sessions is one of the worst Republicans around. Amazing that the only work he does is anti-immigration at the Federal level, unsuccessfully btw, with nothing for the state-level benefit of his constituents. Yet they keep voting this moronic little man into office. Frankly, he’s a poster child for the KKK among other hate groups.
“a presidential campaign defined by Donald Trump’s appeals to an anxious electorate’s baser instincts”
Lee Atwater would be proud?
I am not doubting that occasional attempts to ensure that American workers are not hurt have occurred. The current disasters at Disney, Toys-R-India, SC Edison (where Indian workers now control aspects of operation on a US nuclear plant in close proximity to 20,000,000 CA residents), and so forth demonstrate that these did not work.
And do not make the mistake of believing that this is a partisan issue. It is not. There are about 6 senators who help US workers (Durbin, Brown, Sessions, Grassley, Sanders, I can’t come up with #6). Some ran and won on restricting the H-1B, but now support it due to corporate bribery (Stabenow). Some are horrible disasters, and many of those corporwhores are D senators (Schumer is the worst, being fully in the pay of Wall Street). Many R Senators are also dreadful, including Rubio. Cruz was in the terrible column, but has reconsidered, doubtless an election year reconsideration. So, no partisan stuff here. Both sides are equally guilty.
Oh my what a worker’s paradise It will be when the Republicans are back in power. No unions. More trade agreements. No safety regulations. Lower pay. Higher taxes since the really wealthy and corporations will continue to shirk their shares. & so on. This perfect storm of regressive fustercluck is going to need lots of scapegoats to take the blame. Not surprisingly some have already taken Sessions and Trump’s bait. They have no solutions to the plight of American workers. Indeed, the depletion of the working class has been their objective.
According to a study conducted in late April by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read. That’s 14 percent of the population. Add to that the number who never read books by choice, and fascist Republicanism begins to make sense. Illiteracy forms the boundary of their bubble world.
Yeah, right. Tell us again how often Jeff Sessions has voted to increase the minimum wage.
Well…no. Democrats generally don’t believe that it’s in a government’s best interests to beat up on the individuals drawn to the country by market forces, but instead work to prevent businesses from creating that magnetic pull. Republicans seek to protect business owners who want cheap labor and low taxes. Period. One of those is a more effective stance against illegal immigration and exploitation than the other. Which one, do you think?
Wow. Absolutist much? Your are either “'fur us or a’gin us” eh?
Either someone agrees 100% with EVERYTHING you spout, or they are White-hating RINOS and DINOS who support those “dirty wetbacks” who are coming here to “steal our jobs!” as you say: “destroying the jobs of those WHITE working class voters you hate.” Funny, you don’t seem concerned AT ALL about any of the BLACK or HISPANIC working-class AMERICANS who have lost THEIR JOBS TOO. Just the WHITE ONES (your own words betray your true racism here.)
Also, not one word out of you about the WHITE EMPLOYERS who kicked your Lilly-White Ass off the payroll so they could hire illegals at 1/5 what they were paying you, and then used the money to buy Congress to look the other way and weaken the laws even further, and cut enforcement of those weakened laws.
You are nothing but a Racist Coward.
You are scapegoating others who are being exploited because you are too ignorant and impotent to do anything about it.
Get off your fat white ass and stop being a racist dick about your “boo hoo poor poor me” attitude and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
Organize! Work to elect true progressives who will hold the EMPLOYERS accountable. Elect non-corrupt Union leaders who won’t take bribes to look the other way. Work to get a Supreme Court that won’t ALWAYS take the Business side of every legal case. Don’t support BILLIONAIRES who tell you to hate “the other”. They are LYING TO YOU.
I know it’s easier to find someone else to scapegoat, especially if your are too tired to fight back, but you are playing into the hands of the Oligarchs and doing EXACTLY what they want you to do.
While we are all busy fighting each other, they laugh all the way to the bank (which they also own.)
In this case Government is the ONLY solution. Not the problem.
Educate yourself.
How charmingly naive.
We have a system of work visas in this country. Part of that system are tax consequences. With the J-1 visa, employers do not pay SS tax, medicare tax, or unemployment tax. Thus, hiring using the J-1 mechanism can result in thousands of dollars of saving per worker. Plus, the worker cannot seek other jobs. There is a huge industry around these visas, which bring in 500,000 workers per year. We have youth unemployment. Why do employers hire lifeguards from Belarus? Due to the tax consequences. Obama and the D party have NEVER attempted to fix this.
Obama, may his name be cursed, is attempting to extend the OPT visa. If you hire a foreign graduate, you can get a huge tax break, as you do not pay certain kinds of taxes. This can come to $10,000 per worker. Thus, employers love the OPT visa.
So, why is Obama increasing these visas which hurt American workers?
No, we never debate your points because it’s stupid to wrestle a pig in the mud. We just end up feeling dirty, while the pig enjoys it.
Jeff Session is, always has been and always will be an odious little racist turd. When Reagan tried to elevate him to the federal bench, his confirmation hearings revealed a long history of racist comments and conduct, including trying to shut down civil rights investigations as U.S. attorney. The comments he blew off that old standard “shucks, I was just joshin.’” He admitted having possibly called the NAACP “un-American” or “communist” but oh-so-sincerly apologized. His nomination was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee, with two Republicans joining the Democrats. He was only the second District Court nominee in 48 years whose nomination was rejected.
So, of course, the good white people of Alabama sent him to the Senate.
Accents are not the only things that impede communication between doctors and their patients. I’ve had doctors with American accents who mumbled, couldn’t refrain from using jargon, couldn’t be bothered to explain things, or were just poor communicators.
I’ve worked as a medical transcriptionist. I’ve transcribed for lots of different doctors. One was a Chinese neurologist whose accent was so thick, the speech recognition engine wouldn’t work for him at all. I loved transcribing for him though, because he spoke clearly (with his thick accent), and not too fast. Never had one error in transcription. There were many doctors with American accents who couldn’t be bothered to slow down or enunciate, increasing the chance for errors in transcription and endangering patient care.
It’s interesting though that you’ve chosen to single out a foreign accent as the major communication issue for doctors.
Sen. Sessions is my senator, and I have no regard for him. The only personal contact I have had with his staff occurred when I visited his local office to petition that he personally attend the upcoming 50th anniversary memorial of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. I was kept outside the door and made to speak to a staff member only through an intercom. And, no, he did not attend the memorial services.
Sen. Sessions has a racist past, and if you’re unfamiliar with it, just read through some of this interview: