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    Frank Shyong: Filipino nurses battled discrimination and exploitation to work in American hospitals. Now they fight for PPE

    by Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times May 19, 2020 4 minutes

    If you live in Southern California, there's a good chance that you have at some point received medical care from a Filipino American professional.

    Filipino nurses - along with doctors, anesthesiologists and every other kind of medical worker - are an essential source of labor at public hospitals such as LA County-USC, Kaiser Permanente and Ronald Reagan UCLA. Filipinos also staff and own many long-term care and mental health facilities.

    And about 18% of registered nurses in California are of Philippine descent, according to a 2016 survey.

    Nursing is such a popular profession among Filipinos that it's

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