Mr. President. I learn from private conversation with Senators that I am not alone in the concern I entertain respecting the extent to which thousands of European refugees in our country are threatening the future of such of our American medical men as have abandoned their practice to follow our soldiers and sailors to the ends of the earth to care for their ills and wounds. Astounding tales are told of the extent to which refugee doctors are taking over practice in some of our larger cities. in some communities in such numbers as to enable them to dominate. From various -parts of the country there comes word of the difficulty the American doctor will confront when he returns from war to his private practice. The families of doctors who are in the service complain of the obvious permanence of refugee doctors who have taken up practice in communities from which the established doctors have been called to military service. It is a matter that ought to invite the concern of all of us who would protect the future for these American doctors who today sacrifice so much. I am without actual suggestion as to just what might be done about this con-. dition.
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