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How a travel ban could worsen doctor shortages in US hospitals and threaten primary care

  • Written by John Burkhardt, Lecturer, University of Michigan
imageExam room in a rural Alabama hospital. Brynn Anderson/AP

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Feb. 9 upheld the restraining order on President Trump’s immigration ban. A key argument used by the States of Washington and Minnesota was the negative impact of the ban on higher education, but an important corollary is the impact...

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