Source: Fox News
Summary
Do No Harm, a medical watchdog, has filed a complaint with the Department of Health and Human Services against three medical residency programs, alleging they discriminate against American-trained doctors in favor of foreign-trained doctors. The complaint claims that over 90% of the most recent cohort of residents at Corewell Health, Texas Tech University, and HCA Healthcare came from overseas. The programs allegedly violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Affordable Care Act.
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As expected, the matter has reached another stage.
The complaint reveals a consistent pattern: each program has excluded practically all American-trained physicians from their residencies, filling their cohorts almost exclusively with residents trained in a small set of foreign countries. The directors of the programs mirror the residents they choose: foreign-trained physicians educated in the same countries. The programs’ demographics raise concerns over national origin discrimination.
It is deeply concerning that these programs appear to be discriminating against graduates of U.S. medical schools. Medical institutions and their directors should be hiring residents based on their ability to deliver high-quality patient care, not on national origin.
The high number of foreign doctors in the programs appears unusual, but it’s possible it could be explained without resorting to national-origin discrimination.
The complaint calls on HHS to refer the matter to the Justice Department.
The issue has sparked debate, with some suggesting that the programs may be in violation of immigration law as well.
Author: Evan Null
