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@@@@@@@@@@@@abuse of immigration law@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ - thurkee
#41
@ rsy


Residency (medicine)
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Residency is a stage of graduate medical training. A resident physician or resident is a person who has received a medical degree (MD, DO, MBBS, MBChB) and who practices medicine under the supervision of fully licensed physicians, usually in a hospital or clinic. A residency may follow the internship year or include the internship year as the first year of residency. The residency can also be followed by a fellowship, during which the physician is trained in a sub-specialty. Successful completion of residency training is a requirement to practice medicine in many jurisdictions.

Whereas medical school teaches medical practitioners a broad range of medical knowledge, basic clinical skills, and limited experience practicing medicine, medical residency gives in-depth training within a specific branch of medicine. A medical practitioner may choose a residency in anesthesiology, sports medicine, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, internal medicine/pediatrics, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, pathology, pediatric medicine, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, radiology, radiation oncology, or other specialties (e.g., surgery).

In Australia and New Zealand it leads to eligibility for Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, or a number of similar bodies.

In Canada it leads to eligibility for Certification by and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

In the United States it leads to eligibility for board certification and membership/fellowship of several specialty colleges and academies.
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#42
The Other Credit Crunch

Hospitals and patients alike are struggling with unpaid medical bills.

For many people, the struggle with rising health-care costs has already reached a critical point. More than two in five American adults under 65 had trouble paying their medical bills last year, according to a recent study by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based health policy research group. Of those people, 39 percent had used up all their savings, 30 percent had racked up credit-card debt and 29 percent said medical bills left them struggling to pay for basic necessities like food and heat.

Doctors and hospitals are also struggling to survive the health-care credit crunch: they endure some $60 billion in unpaid medical bills each year, according to a report last year from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. With out-of-pocket health costs rising (the $250 billion price tag in 2005 is expected to exceed $420 billion by 2015), the percentage of unpaid bills will likely increase as we head into a new year and a new economic reality. A report released by the American Hospital Association (AHA) last week shows that over the last three months, elective medical procedures have dropped 6 percent below projected levels, while admissions are down 9 percent. Unpaid care is up by 8 percent.

With their own solvency at stake, hospitals are doing everything in their power to collect on unpaid bills. That, according to the Boston-based advocacy group the National Consumer Law Center, can mean suing patients and their spouses, failing to explain charity care options, offering credit or loans and using collection agencies and the threat of bad credit to coerce patients into settling up. A number of big banks now offer credit cards exclusively for medical procedures”and a growing number of hospitals have started checking patients' credit scores while they sit in the waiting room.

All of those tactics are perfectly legal, as long as hospitals comply with a federal law that requires them to treat anyone who comes in with an emergency”regardless of their ability to pay, says Carol Pryor, a senior policy analyst with the Access Project, a nonprofit health-advocacy organization. But how the law defines an emergency”something that could be potentially life-threatening”can be different from the way many Americans would define it when it comes to their own health. Like, for example, Dearfield, N.H., resident Maria McNamara, who suffers from a degenerative eye condition called retinal dispigmentosa and is uninsured. Her disease caused blindness in one of her eyes, but until recently she could still see and get around with a set of eyeglasses.

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#43
i do not make things up here is the link for the previous article

http://www.newsweek.com/id/170701
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#44
You US Citizens-IMGs are "fool". This forum won't help you. All these Forien National IMGs ( J-1/H-1 Visa seekers) don't care about thier own home country. If they are all 99ers, why they leave their country after graduating at "cheap" education ?. They don't love their own country, not they are loyal to any other country. If US go down, they will go to any other country fot their own "economical gains".

The only way , you US Cistien IMGs can win, is not by writing to Senators/Presidents/Congress, but by going in group in front of White-House or Capitol Hill, with Banners, and that will create "media awareness" and eventually law will change, otherwise it will take years or might never happen.

Remember, now bigger problem is " J-1" Visa.

Good Luck to all US Citizen-IMGs
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#45
U.S. economy took a tumble in the summer
Latest GDP data show consumers drastically cut back on spending


updated 11 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The economy took a tumble in the summer that was worse than first thought as American consumers throttled back their spending by the most in 28 years, further proof the country is almost certainly in the throes of a painful recession.



Keep going PD's you are doing a great job ,please offer more visas to foreigners.
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#46
This process should mature into some kind of a group or loose organization before we take it to the next level. Another thing that can be done is to get a lawyer and start suing these programs or a program and pushing that case into media. Obviously, this was a good meeting place and but this process has to be pushed forward and also funded to whatever extent possible.
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#47
majic
they can quote what you guys said in this forum and send it to the IRS, report the problem to the immigration officer there. this will make some trouble for your guys......

So keep quite...
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#48
it is good that one can take it to the next level. IRS has nothing to do with immigration law.
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#49
thurkee and concern and doc well.

by talking to forum nothing will hqppen.better to do some action.
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#50
i agree with you usmle-steps........it is better to do something
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