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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh I have lots of experience with this! I work with people from many different countries, as I am a physician in a large academic hospital in NYC.

At least once a month a foreign-trained doctor  drops into conversation how much smarter everyone is in their country and how much better their foreign education was than US college/med school, usually followed by a complaint about how stupid Americans are.

The complainers include a whole range of ages and nationalities: residents, fellows and my attending physician colleagues, from lots of different countries (France, Italy, Belgium, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc etc - although, never heard complaints from anyone from Ireland or Canada).

So, it’s not just a 17 year old kid thing to do - plenty of 23-70 year olds are doing it too!

Not sure why - maybe insecurity?

In contrast to many people on this thread, in my experience, it’s not true that foreign trained doctors are overall far superior to US born and educated doctors. Some are and some aren’t.

I used to gently push back, but now I just nod and smile, and try to change the subject. It is not like I am going to change their mind.[/quote]

People at the top think everyone else is a loser. If they were back home they'd be desperate to come to America because everyone back home is too stupid. And they did! [/quote]

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