America is increasingly dependent on foreign doctors − but their path to immigration is getting harder

This immigrant workforce is key to offsetting a dire physician shortage. The need for more doctors is due, in part, to America's growing and aging population; U.S.-born doctors' unwillingness to move to poorer and more rural areas; and U.S.-born doctors' lack of interest in going into primary care, which can be less lucrative and prestigious than other areas of medicine...

https://theconversation.com/america-is-increasingly-dependent-on-foreign-doctors-but-their-path-to-immigration-is-getting-harder-229980