The failure of the United States to fully utilize the services of refugee physicians, in marked contrast to Great Britain’s policy, was pointed out in a second editorial on the subject in the New York Times yesterday.
Speaking of the liberal attitude which England has adopted, regarding the admittance of refugee doctors to practice, the editorial says that these doctors “could be of great use in America also at a time when the Army and Navy are calling for physicians.
“If depleted X-ray departments and laboratories of the hospitals are now debarred to these foreigners, they should be opened; if English interposes difficulties, it should be taught; if loyalty to the Government is in doubt, it should be settled by investigation,” the article says. “There must be some place in our medical system for these medical emigres, and it is clearly the business of the hospitals and the county medical societies to find it. This is no time for stiffening our attitude toward a class of professional foreigners who have no liking for Hitler or Mussolini, and who are eager to do what they can to aid the cause of the United Nations.”
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