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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Volume 350:2435-2437 June 10, 2004 Number 24 Next

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They can't believe that I round at 6:30 a.m., that I am available to my patients 24 hours a day, or that I don't get paid overtime for long hours. My medical school classmates who continue to work in Ireland live a different life from mine — one that I have left behind.

But I am not alone. International medical graduates account for a quarter of the 853,187 physicians in the United States,¹ an increase of 160 percent since 1975. Immigrant physicians also account for 27 percent of the country's 96,937 residents and fellows,¹ having migrated in search of training . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.

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