In the NYC hospital where my friend works, the Indian
doctors tried to set up their caste systems in the hospital.
Low caste Indian doctors would get extra work shoveled on
them by their higher-caste coworkers.
In general, the Indian doctors coming to the US are not very
good, have no people skills, and tend to be arrogant and
practice poor hygiene. You have to imagine the scene where
300 pound Bronx or Harlem guys complain about the smelly and
rude resident physicians and the administration has
routinely to issue memos about the importance of wearing
clean lab coats.
By their third-year here, most of the Indian physicians have
realized they can't push lower-caste physicians and women
around, they wash more, their English improves, and they
understand more. Second-generation American physicians of
Indian ancestry have none of these qualities, needless to
say. Ah, the melting pot.
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