Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed a statistic to the National Resident Matching Program. We have removed the reference and apologize for the error.

Two court decisions blocking President Trump’s executive order on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries may have prevented problems for the U.S. health care system.

American health care, which is already doctor-deficient, derives a large number of medical professionals from the seven countries targeted by the president’s controversial migration ban.

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