Why Pakistani Medical Graduates Must Remain Free to Emigrate
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Why Pakistani Medical Graduates Must Remain Free to Emigrate
Student Forum T he current debate about the brain drain of health professionals from low-income countries such as Pakistan to the rich world often demonizes medical graduates who choose to leave their countries. Such graduates are sometimes considered to be insensitive to the plight of their country's struggling health sector. But what is forgotten in this debate is that some doctors who emigra...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0050002