Doctors and Soccer Players — African Professionals on the Move

Interview with Fitzhugh Mullan on the physician brain drain in Ghana and other developing countries. (07:36)Download On June 22, 2006, the nation of Ghana erupted. SUVs flew through the streets of Accra with flag-waving celebrants jammed through sunroofs. Crowds led by shirtless drummers banging garbage-can tops snaked down major roads, picking up revelers as they went. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets, shouting jubilantly. Ghana, playing in its first World Cup, had beaten the United States and earned a berth in the final stage of the global soccer pageant. It was a paroxysm of national pride that Ghana had rarely experienced.“It's the same for football players as it is for doctors,” I . . .