How immigrant physicians solved a U.S. crisis
Adapted from The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare. Copyright 2025. Published with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press.
In the decades following the passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the face of American medicine irrevocably changed. This bill expedited the rapid entry of physicians from post-colonial Asian nations into the U.S. in significant numbers. In this migratory flow, South Asian physicians, in …
How immigrant physicians solved a U.S. crisis
