Not sure about UK stats, but medical error was the 3rd leading cause of preventable deaths in the USA. We find ourselves in the predicament of needing foreign born doctors partly due to an increase in foreign born citizens and non citizens. That's how the crisis was created in the first place. Doctors now spend 5 minutes or less per patient, due to work overload. This is probably another reality you don't deal with in the Netherlands however.
Well, I am sure about those statistics, very sure actually. I got them from the House of Commons library, article title "NHS staff from overseas: Statistics".
The page can be found
here.
And now we are talking about preventable deaths in the USA? Because we were talking about the UK and it's NHS. According to the office of National Statistics in the UK, the biggest causes for "avoidable mortality rates by broad cause group" are:
1. neoplasms
2. cardiovascular disease
3. injuries
4. respiratory diseases
5. drugs use disorder
6. other
You find yourselves in the predicament of needing foreign educated doctors, because not all foreign trained doctors are foreign born doctors, because the US does not have a proper health care system like in the UK or in a lot of European countries. In the US it is the high number of non-insured people who do not go for regular health checks or who can afford their medications, that has created the crisis.
Because if there is no health care system, there is no money or incentive to build enough hospitals, give out proper preventative care where the primary treatment of illnesses and accidents in their local doctor rather than an emergency room or a hospital itself.
And it is true, we do not deal with that in the Netherlands because there are enough hospitals here, everybody (virtually everybody) has medical insurance that pays for all your basic health care costs and when I see my doctor the minimum time reserved for each consult is a minimum of 10 minutes and if you have a more difficult issue (instead of coming to the doctor because you have the sniffles) you get a minimum of 20 minutes. And when I go to the hospital it takes as long as it takes, normally appointments are made with 30 minutes or so per patient.
None of this is the fault of immigrants in the US or foreign born doctors. The problem is an unwillingness on some people to create a good healthcare system because of the insane idea that a proper healthcare system is socialism.