Week of April 17, 2017

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Dr. Sylvana Atallah (right) a physician at Eastern Maine Medical Center, listens to Stephen Cust's heart in the hospital's cardiac wing recently. Atallah, who was born in Egypt and lived with her family in Nigeria, is one of several hundred foreign-born doctors practicing in Maine, many of them through a federal visa waiver program. (foreign aid) (BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY BRIDGET BROWN)

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Dr. Sylvana Atallah (right), a physician at Eastern Maine Medical Center, listens to patient Stephen Cust's heart in the hospital's cardiac wing Nov. 28, 2007. Atallah, who was born in Egypt and lived with her family in Nigeria, is one of several hundred foreign-born doctors practicing in Maine, many of them through a federal visa waiver program which allows recently certified doctors to stay in the U.S. if they work in a medically underserved area. (Bangor Daily News/Bridget Brown)