This is the first in a series of articles on foreign-born physicians practicing in Georgia. Other articles in this special report will focus on barriers that immigrant doctors face if they want to work in the state, a clinic that serves mainly immigrant and refugee patients and Muslim physicians here.
Dr. Alluri Raju vividly remembers how, more than 30 years ago, his ethnicity brought a patient to tears. Back then, the young physician was known in the small southwest Georgia town of Richland as “the Indian doctor.”
“I had this patient in her 90s, a very nice and very sick lady,” he recalls.
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