Immigrant Doctors News Today

The top 5 stories in Sask. this year range from a Shania Twain tour bus rollover to international-trained doctors who were unable to obtain a medical licence to practise.

Science and maybe previous administrations have. >> reporter: and weve heard some of things like that for example when the march started up by trump international hotel and tower people were booing and they were saying they want to see donald trump impeached. and they were saying that they felt like when she saw his proposed budgeting it slashed budgets for things like nasa, the department of nerng and thats what they dont want to see go. i also spoke to another graduate student and that one was...

A medical doctor, then suddenly becoming a maid or house painter. this is the reality for many immigrant doctors who come to the u.s. and arent able to get their medical licenses. doctors at ucla created a program to help immigrant physicians get licensed in the u.s. in hopes of addressing a major shortage of primary care doctors. >> we always wondered given there are so many international medical graduates working in the country, where are the people from latin america? we stumbled upon them wo...

Country, where are the people from latin america? and we stumbled upon them working in medium jobs. this is a woman that works at mcdonalds in colorado. >> uclas dr. patrick dowling and dr. michelle bolat are on hunt for latino immigrant doctors. >> she was at the university of family medicine. >> why? potentially as a solution to americas primary care doctor shortage. dowling says there are few thousand latino immigrant doctors living in southern california alone, but they arent practicing medi...

Congress in the country are in the middle of a hot debate. where ever you stand on this issue it has a direct connection to another problem. thats our doctor short aj in the united states. turns out theres thousands of medically trained doctors living in america but not practicing medicine. >> weve always wondered theres so many international medical graduatesworking in america, where are they. >> this is a woman working at mcdonalds in colorado. they are on the hunt for latino immigrant doctors...

But none of us are drunk now. i think it is a lot of im -- immigrant doctors are coming from different countries and they go, what are you doing? i dont know how many times i tell a doctor i do a lot of drugs and alcohol and i have a fore skin. they say, what do you do with those things 1234* cut them all out. >> i agree on all of those. >> it is a different culture. >> 50 years ago -- in russia they have a pint like this of vodka at work. they say this is where are you working and this is your ...