Doctors’ terror plot may intensify US screening

The AP speculates that the recent terrorist plot in Britain will contribute to the shortage of doctors in the US, making it harder for foreign-born doctors to get through the screening process.

“The consensus seems to be that if you have a first name like Mohammed, you can forget it,” Dr. Sanjay Chaube, a much-needed internist in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Bay St. Louis, Miss., and one of more than 40,000 Indian doctors in the U.S.

The story says that this will likely hit rural and inner-city poor the hardest.

Shortage of Doctors Affects Rural U.S. [Via The Associated Press/ABC News]

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