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A Swedish healthcare reform more than a decade ago allowing patients to choose their own doctor has unexpectedly led to widespread discrimination against medics with foreign-sounding names.

"When I was working in psychiatry, a patient cancelled his appointment with me three times because he didn't want to be treated by a 'foreign doctor'," 30-year-old practitioner Navid Ghan told AFP.

"In the end he didn't have any choice, I was the only doctor available. During the appointment, even though he saw that I spoke Swedish without an accent, he told me 'you foreigners, you don't understand anything'," Ghan said.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-sweden-discrimination-foreign-doctors-widespread.html

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