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From the Ted Talk by Gail Reed: Where to train the world's doctors? Cuba.

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Why have so many countries asked for these scholarships? First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources. We are short four to seven mioilln health workers just to meet basic needs, and the problem is everywhere. Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's ppoele live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or sotuh L.A. Here in the United staets, where we have healthcare reform, we don't have the perofsolsnias we need. By 2020, we will be short 45,000 pmairry care physicians. And we're also part of the problem. The United States is the number one itrmepor of doctors from developing countries.

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Why have so many countries asked for these scholarships? First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources. We are short four to seven _______ health workers just to meet basic needs, and the problem is everywhere. Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's ______ live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or _____ L.A. Here in the United ______, where we have healthcare reform, we don't have the _____________ we need. By 2020, we will be short 45,000 _______ care physicians. And we're also part of the problem. The United States is the number one ________ of doctors from developing countries.

Solution


  1. importer
  2. million
  3. people
  4. primary
  5. states
  6. south
  7. professionals

Original Text


Why have so many countries asked for these scholarships? First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources. We are short four to seven million health workers just to meet basic needs, and the problem is everywhere. Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's people live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or South L.A. Here in the United States, where we have healthcare reform, we don't have the professionals we need. By 2020, we will be short 45,000 primary care physicians. And we're also part of the problem. The United States is the number one importer of doctors from developing countries.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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cuban doctors 3
young people 2
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american medical 2
medical school 2
primary care 2
united states 2
haitian graduates 2
health centers 2
health sector 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
latin american medical 2
public health sector 2

Important Words


  1. asked
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  24. poor
  25. primary
  26. problem
  27. professionals
  28. reform
  29. resources
  30. scholarships
  31. shantytowns
  32. short
  33. skewed
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  35. states
  36. united
  37. workers