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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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It needs to change. I know several immigrant doctors who are similarly situated.
Yup.
Several of the "surgical assistants" with whom I worked were board-certified docs in their home countries. Not necessarily surgically trained, but that's a skill easily learned (you can teach anyone to retract, cut suture and tie knots). I always felt bad for these (usually Pakistani) guys who were punching way, way, below their weight.
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Worked with a Polish lady who had defected from behind the Iron Curtain. She was a pediatrician back home. In America, since she couldn't get her license, she worked as a technical rep for Beckman-Coulter.
