USA vs UK healthcare - physician perspective
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Clearly Britain will soon be 3rd world so perhaps the US should sign up to the WHO mandate also (it never has) pose the same question to those British Gp's now sitting on a beach on the Gold Coast coining in $300k Ozzie bucks
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Unless you're trying to tell us that there are not currently more applications than places, that every qualified kid can go and that it's just all a mirage?
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For an educated guy you do come out with some dumb ideas.
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Because he's being forced into defending a position that anyone that isn't a $$$ hungry MD can't actually defend or even rationalize. So instead he hurls derogatoriness.
So recruit some of them there foreign docs that seem to come flocking for the lolly. Oh, wait.
Given there is already close to a 100k doctor shortage in the US where are these mysterious queues you are seeing?! What a dumb delusional comment.
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I'm sure Somalia has some. Or the US could nab some more UK trained mercenary MDs like yourself .
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I remember one of my colleagues back home who was equally hacked off with NHS spin and bureaucracy said to me just before I left 'If you ever get a Brit as a patient charge them triple if not more' - Easy to see now why
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If you ever get a Brit as a patient charge them triple if not more' - Easy to see now why
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The number of visas was previously capped at just over 20,000 a year, and the cap has been hit in recent years before it was lifted.
Bear in mind this is nowhere near the total number of foreign doctors coming to the UK, just those who are from outside the EU (since by definition EU doctors are visa-exempt).
The GMC could probably supply the full details of those registering through foreign qualifications versus those enforcing community rights, for those who care enough to continue arguing about it.
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