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Culturally, I suspect this would not go over well. There are a shocking number of people that would be less than impressed to be served by a doctor with a non-Anglo-Saxon last name, even if they spoke perfect English.

Especially older people, who are the largest consumers of healthcare.

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People are accustomed to having foreign physicians, other-than-white physicians and certainly other-than-Anglo-Saxon physicians.

Nearly 30% of US primary care physicians trained abroad.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/health/12chen.html

Only 8.7% of the US are descended from the English (Anglo-Saxons)

Source: http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf

That said, the US could easily recruit physicians from Europe including the UK so you may very well get more Anglo-Saxon physicians!

Good luck with that, considering europe already gets huge number of physicians from India.

http://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/india-biggest-exporter-of...

It doesn't follow that because many European physicians come from India that few European physicians would choose to work in the United States.

I don't think this is true. A "shocking number" doesn't mean "the majority" or anywhere close to it in this case, but rather more than there should be(none).

> Especially older people, who are the largest consumers of healthcare

the old bigots can learn to live with it.

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