doctors

Many parts of the United States are desperately in need of doctors, especially in rural and medically underserved areas.
The World's Global Classroom
Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors
A hospital worker carries a tray of medicine at a government-run hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Health & Medicine
Sri Lankan doctors say the country can’t survive on donated drugs forever
A nurse shows an elderly man a syringe prepared with a dose of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, before he is inoculated at the Americas Cultural Center in Ecatepec, Mexico, April 3, 2021.
COVID-19
Thousands of medical workers left behind in Mexico’s vaccination program 
Three women health care workers in uniform, wearing headscarves and masks, stand and listen among a crowd of medical workers.
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘Sometimes I feel like I betrayed my country’: Lebanon’s doctors are leaving in droves
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.
Science
To reassure Cubans, a revered meteorologist returns to the airwaves
Drs. Abdulkhalek (center) and Farida (right)  look on during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on the conflict in Syria on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Conflict
These two Syrian doctors survived the siege of Aleppo — and helped many others survive, too
Dr. Chalak Berzingi poses with his wife, Dr. Mayada Issa, and his daughter, Seher Berzingi.
Global Politics
This Iraqi doctor made his home in Trump country
Aleppo residents walk past a burnt bus in the city's rebel-held Seif al-Dawla neighborhood.
Conflict
Driving without headlights in besieged eastern Aleppo
Many female medical students face a dilemma: their careers or their families.
Medicine
Women rule Pakistan’s med schools, but few practice. Men want M.D. ‘trophy wives.’