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Harmeet Dhillon slams ‘broken' U.S. medical school system
In a detailed post on X, Dhillon recounted the career of her father, a foreign medical graduate who served as the only orthopedic surgeon in a rural North Carolina farming county.
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Malvika Choudhary - Wed, 13, Aug 2025
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Harmeet Dhillon. / Dhillon Law Group
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon criticized the U.S. medical school system as “broken” while defending the role of foreign-born doctors in addressing physician shortages.
“The H-1B system is broken and needs reform. But what does that have to do with medical education? Nothing, and it’s lazy to conflate the two broken systems,” Dhillon said in a post on X. “I’m in favor of doubling our domestic med school capacity. It will take decades to do this. Meanwhile, Americans need good doctors.”
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Dhillon recounted the career of her father, a foreign medical graduate who completed orthopedic residencies on three continents and practiced for more than 15 years as the only orthopedic surgeon in a rural North Carolina farming county.
My father was a foreign medical graduate. He was highly qualified and did orthopedics residencies on three continents. After over 15 years of training, and earning his board certification in orthopedics, with special focus in hand and spine surgery, he was the only orthopedic…
— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) August 10, 2025
She said several other foreign-trained doctors served the same area and also cited her uncle’s decades-long service as a board-certified urologist in another rural county.
These examples, according to Dhillon, reflect shortages of qualified specialists in the country. In addition, she contended that "American medical schools teach that gender is a social construct, that sex is not determined at birth, that drugs can fix everything," and that "admissions... are based on affirmative action and not merit," which disadvantages "hardworking white and Asian Americans."
Her remarks came after Republican Senator Greg Murphy defended H-1B visas as “critical for helping alleviate the severe physician shortage” in the U.S., saying the country “cannot train enough American doctors fast enough.”
Dhillon urged policymakers to “address the problems with American medical education and the artificial supply limitations without scapegoating the foreign-born doctors who provide a critically necessary service throughout the country.”
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