Bringing more doctors into Texas should create shorter waits in the emergency room and more specialists to treat complicated diseases. Though that is welcome news to most, it is apparently troublesome to self-styled patient advocate Alex Winslow, executive director of Texas Watch.

For years, our state ranked among the worst in the nation in doctor-to-patient ratio. Physician applications reached a 10-year low. Now, with reforms in place, doctors want to come to Texas — and we need them desperately — but Winslow says keep them out.

According to Mary Ann Roser's article, Winslow told the medical board that adding more license processors and licensing more doctors puts the public at risk, though he offered no plausible explanation as to why that is so.

Denying applications or delaying the process without justifiable cause only hurts the patients that Winslow purports to represent. This makes absolutely no sense.