Respirologists put their elbows up

[jon-nyc]

‘Respirologist’ is Canadian for Pulmonologist.

Last year their presence at the major international conference for such people (held in the US) was down 47% from the year before.

This year, so far, registrations are down an ADDITIONAL 37% from last year’s reduced level.

Europe and Asia are down quite a bit too. There’s a similar but smaller conference in Europe in the fall that I usually go to. If this keeps up it will become the leading global conference.

So much winning.

[Axtremus]

Yeah, seeing reduced attendance by foreigners in many conferences held in the USA. Reasons I hear most is “it’s getting too hard to get a visa to come to the US.”

[blondie]

I still hear the word Pulmonologist. Maybe it’s where they trained?
Last year the UofC IT people were offering up safe laptops and cellphones to almost anyone wanting to go to a U.S. conference.
I know of no one who went down there. I’m trying hard also to think of anyone who went to the U.S. for a vacation.
Fears of harassment, detention, deportation, the reasons.
Canada is a pretty diverse country. Many come from countries far away to train, work, do research. Few want to risk their lives being torn up with threats of being turfed back to the countries they left.

[Renauda]

There are both Respirologists and Pulmonologists who work at the Cancer Hospital where my spouse works. She's not certain as to how the two professions differ as she has little to do with them on her case load which is almost exclusively head and neck cancer patients.