Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals

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“Travel and visa restrictions imposed by the Trump administration threaten patient care at hundreds of hospitals that depend on medical residents recruited from overseas,” the New York Times reports.“Foreign medical residents often serve as the frontline caregivers at busy safety-net hospitals in low-income communities. Normally the residents begin work on July 1. Orientation programs for some of them already started this week.”“Now some of those hospitals are racing to prevent staffing shortages.”