Carlos Martinez joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Drs Lauren Carruth, Hannah Janeway, Lahra Smith, Katharine M. Donato, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, James Quesada, and Seth Holmes: “How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity with Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border?”
Carlos Martinez, MPH, Lauren Carruth, PhD, Hannah Janeway, MD, Lahra Smith, PhD, Katharine M. Donato, PhD, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, PhD, James Quesada, PhD, and Seth M. Holmes, MD, PhD
AMA J Ethics. 2022;E275-282. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2022.275.
We must not pit immigration policy and health care needs against one another. We need better policy on immigration, and that policy should confront immigration at the workplace and at the border—not in the hospital emergency room.
There are “push” factors such as poor working conditions, substandard facilities, unsafe conditions, and low income that discourage health professionals trained in Indian medical schools from staying in country.
Abraar Karan, MD, Daniel DeUgarte, MD, and Michele Barry, MD
Responsibility for physician “brain drain” can be attributed to the resource-poor countries that lose talent, the wealthy recruiting countries, and individuals.
AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(7):665-675. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.7.ecas1-1607.