As fewer med students are choosing primary care and Internal medicine as a career, these places are being occupied by IMG(Internal medical graduates).
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clipped from ap.google.com Fewer US med students choosing primary care Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system. Just 2 percent of nearly 1,200 fourth-year students surveyed planned to work in primary care internal medicine, according to results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a similar survey in 1990, the figure was 9 percent. Family medicine had the lowest average salary last year, $186,000, and the lowest share of residency slots filled by U.S. students, 42 percent. Orthopedic surgery paid $436,000, and 94 percent of residency slots were filled by U.S students. "Primary care is holding steady but only because of international medical school graduates," as American students lose interest, teaching hospitals will probably become less interested in offering primary care programs

Individualism Vs Collectivism

This is a nice article about the "Individual values" of the Western society and "collective values" of eastern society.
Western societies are more rich and prosperous and emphasize more on "individual values and privacy and rights" on the other hand Eastern societies emphasize more on group effort.

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clipped from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html?em one of the most striking is the divide between the societies with an individualist mentality and the ones with a collectivist mentality. Americans are more likely to see categories. Asians are more likely to see relationships. You can create a global continuum with the most individualistic societies — like the United States or Britain — on one end, and the most collectivist societies — like China or Japan — on the other. The individualistic countries tend to put rights and privacy first Either way, individualistic societies have tended to do better economically. But what happens if collectivist societies snap out of their economic stagnation? A new sort of global conversation develops. The rise of China isn’t only an economic event. It’s a cultural one. The ideal of a harmonious collective may turn out to be as attractive as the ideal of the American Dream. It’s certainly a useful ideology for aspiring autocrats.