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I think it's probably just racism. I bet you'd see similar outcomes if you let people choose between white doctors and Indian-American doctors, even if the white doctor was the foreign one.


Naw, not true, at least on the east coast indian doctors (with american MDs) are common and are not generally viewed as 'inferior' in any way to caucasian doctors.


There are so many Indian doctors that it's almost become a stereotype of Indians. I'm just saying that given a choice, the white doctor gets chosen, rather than the US-educated one.


In rural america often times the only doctors are Indian or Pakistani.


I agree but not sure if it's quite racism, more like prejudice. If it were a relatively poor or say (ex-) communist country with white doctors they'd be wary too.




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