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Two male and one female internationally trained doctors are listening to a presentation.

Highly trained and educated, some foreign-born doctors still can’t practice medicine in the US

Education

There are tens of thousands of foreign-trained doctors who could help alleviate the US’ shortage. But many of them are not allowed to work here.

Dr. Olga Maeve is finishing up her medical residency at Clinica Sierra Vista in Bakersfield, California.

Teaching health clinics work in underserved communities across the US, but funding is set to run out

Health
Veteran Cuban weather forecaster Jose Rubiera is now retired. But when a big storm hits, he returns to his broadcasts, to the relief of many Cubans.

To reassure Cubans, a revered meteorologist returns to the airwaves

Science
Tsegay

Organizations try to fight ‘brain waste’ and get highly trained immigrants back to work

Jobs
Dr. Chalak Berzingi poses with his wife, Dr. Mayada Issa, and his daughter, Seher Berzingi.

This Iraqi doctor made his home in Trump country

Global Politics
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Aleppo residents walk past a burnt bus in the city's rebel-held Seif al-Dawla neighborhood.

Driving without headlights in besieged eastern Aleppo

Conflict

The only female obstetrician left in eastern Aleppo says she’s living in a ghost town.

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