How California’s Immigrants Are Bringing Innovation—and Heart—to Health Care

From Biotech to Behavioral Apps, Newcomers Are Reimagining How We Heal Our Bodies

Immigrants are already essential to health care in California. But they will become even more important in the future.

Today’s health system is a giant mess—timely care is hard to find, drugs and treatments are ruinously expensive, and lethal mistakes are all too common. But things would be even worse without the immigrants who serve as doctors, nurses, and aides, often in places and in roles for which our clinics and hospitals can find no one else. In America, one in six medical professionals, and nearly one-third of physicians, are foreign-born; …