Doctors with borders: How the US shuts out foreign physicians

In A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemmingway details his time in Paris in the 1920s, dedicating a section to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this part, Gatsby's creator is depicted as, among other things, a hypochondriac. In one of Fitzgerald's dramatic fits, he insists on going to the American Hospital in Paris because, "I don't want a dirty French provincial doctor." Nearly 100 years later, the American Hospital in Paris continues to thrive. On its staff are eight American doctors as well as 378 European ones. It is the only hospital in Europe where a doctor can practice with a U.S. medical license. American doctors hoping to work in Europe would normally have to re-do their residencies before practicing independently.