Immigrants with foreign medical degrees and certifications hoping to work in the US, can’t get easily licensed. Even experienced medical professionals have to go back to school for years to be able to work as doctors and nurses again. With a critical shortage of healthcare workers, Maine Public Radio’s Ari Snider reports that some states have tried to speed the process along, but most efforts have failed.
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