RT Journal
A1 Edsall DL, Hartwell JA, Longcope WT, Minot GR, Naffziger HC, Phemister DB
T1 THe problem of the refuge physician
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD February 11
VO 112
IS 6
SP 570
OP 571
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800060086025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800060086025
AB To the Editor:— 
    The editorial in The Journal, Sept. 17, 1938, concerning the problem of foreign refugee physicians in this country appears to have been sadly prophetic. Recent events in Central Europe have deprived hundreds of thousands of people of their means of livelihood and have enormously accelerated emigration. Among the expatriates coming to this country, according to the best information available there will be about two thousand doctors. The question of their fate is an important one. Will they be assets or will they be liabilities?The fact that well qualified professional immigrants may become assets to the country is shown by previous and recent experiences. Some of our earliest universities were founded and staffed by political refugees. Within a hundred years the doctors and teachers who came here after the revolutions of 1848 have left a splendid heritage. Many of the refugee scholars and physicians who have left