In the USA is is the law. Medical issues are private matters between a healthcare provider and patient. If a person's private information was to "get out" it might affect their ability to get a job or they might face other predjudices Also the private insurance numbers could be used to steal someone's identity.
Foreign doctors have all kinds of different forms of training. But many are united by one common factor that seems to be operative especially in the Commonwealth countries — a great emphasis on the bedside exam and on clinical skills. In part, [this approach] was driven by the lack of ready access to all the kinds of sophisticated testing that we have now. But I think that kind of clinical training still serves me very well.
<span>a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.</span>
Answer:
a bit like a band or ring under the microscope
