In Warner Robins, Muslim Doctors Play A Key Role

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November 9th, 2018

Dr. Mohammad Al-Shroof, 49, was born in Jordan with Palestinian roots. He came to the United States 27 years ago, did his residency training in New York and then moved to Middle Georgia because that’s where they needed doctors. Then he decided to stay. There are close to 1 million active physicians in the United States. About 25 percent of them are trained in a foreign medical schools, according to a report.

Courtesy of Georgia Health News

This is the fourth in a series of articles on foreign-born physicians practicing in Georgia. Other articles in this special report have focused on barriers that immigrant doctors face if they want to work in the state; a clinic that serves mainly immigrant and refugee patients; and on Indian physicians here.

If you get admitted to the Houston Medical Center in the central Georgia town of Warner Robins, there is a good chance that a physician from the Middle East or South Asia will treat you.

And there’s a good chance, too, that the physician is a Muslim.

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