[Paine in the Neck]

all that will do is drive prospective doctors into other fields and then they can bring in are their non English speaking ME male doctors who think female patients are lower than their camels.

yes, that script has already been played out in the UK's NHS.

[Rutabega]

Re: the ME doctors who dislike women; happens in Sweden, too. I had to go to a doctor (assigned by the town, thank you very much) who snarled when he talked to me. Lovely fellow from one of the hellholes in the ME. I made my husband call the town and have me reassigned to another doctor (major struggle) because the guy was such a POS. I had a good friend who was an emergency room doctor there and had all sorts of horror stories about ALL of the doctors, not just the ME ones. Seems that their work ethic was NOTHING compared to their “rights” to take things like their allotted 15 minute breaks in the middle of surgeries, etc.