Posted on 07/04/2007 6:33:28 AM PDT by maica
At last count, five of the eight suspects arrested in connection with the recent Islamist terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow are doctors. Two more might be medical students. As far as we can tell, all were born outside of Britain.
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Of the 277,000 doctors registered to practice in Great Britain's General Medical Council, the BBC reports, roughly 128,000 of them — 46% — were trained outside the European Union. Four years ago, more than two-thirds of physicians registered to practice in the United Kingdom were from overseas. Great Britain has little choice but to import physicians. Brits, it seems, don't want to be doctors like they once did. The socialist National Health Service is constantly trying to fill shortages and cannot operate without doctors from abroad.
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Even British doctors who have practiced for years are choosing the latter. Because the government runs the health care system,U.K. doctors are beset with issues — such as cost cuts, facility centralization — with which they shouldn't have to deal.
Worse, they must ration care. When they don't make the decisions about who is treated and when, bureaucrats do. In a system where free case leads to unfettered demand, rationing — in the words of Dr. Alex Smallwood of the British Medical Association, "has become a necessary evil."
Salaries are rationed as well. British doctors are paid like the civil servants they are, which is to say they have a ceiling much lower than that of other professionals, most of whom are less educated. Even extraordinary people dedicated to saving lives and healing bodies are going to want to be fairly compensated for their effort.
The outlook for British physicians is so bleak that 54% say morale is low while a mere 2% rate it as excellent.
Michael Moore, naturally, doesn't talk about Britain's health care disaster in his new documentary, "Sicko." Nor will Americans hear much about it from the Democratic candidates clamoring to force socialist medicine on this country. Call it the rationing of truth.
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But for how long? An honest media would share these facts with Americans. Let us hope that the successful Republican presidential candidate will put these facts into his stump speech.
Could someone ping Hill with this?
Great article!!!
Apparently it is not a good idea to outsource the practitioners of medicine. /understatement
The presence or absence of medical caregivers is not static. The opportunity for anyone to receive medical care depends on people who want to pursue those occupations. Yet this fact is disregarded or glossed over whenever dems promote ‘health care for all by the single payer method.”
Hitlery care coming to a state near you.
LOL! I just love the sense of humor of Freepers.
Depressingly, there is an awful lot about the UK that is SICKO at the present time, as a result of their relentless pursuit of “non-judgmentalism above all.”
When foreign born imigrant Doctors are sick of the British system, you know it must be really bad.
Meanwhile in Iowa, Hillary works hard to be elected President so she can Socialize healthcare in America.
Hillary must be defeated.
Something doesn’t compute about doctors and car bombs. That’s pretty lame for a doctor’s bag. Something a lot worse seems more likely for a serious effort.
Steadily declining reimbursements (Medicare) and ever increasing overhead lead to overall less income. Regulations (HIPPA, etc) don’t help morale or costs. Soon medicine may be one of those “jobs that Americans won’t do” leading us, like the UK, to have to import laborers to fill the void.
The U.S. is also importing a lot of doctors, although I don't believe that it is yet up to the ratios that the U.K. has.
It already is a job that more women than men are willing to do, based on med school enrollments, which means that much potential talent in our male population is choosing other work -
No?
I'd say their business is booming.
Hillary must be defeated.
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One of the reasons that I linked this article to FRs database.
Keywords: healthcare;Hillarydefeat;Hillarycare
I do too. ;-)
It's how I get my daily laugh time in!!! lololololo ;-)
The U.S. is also importing a lot of doctors
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Sadly, yes. And native-born doctors are retiring or switching to lucrative practices such as cosmetic surgery or ART [Artificial Reproductive Therapies], diminishing the availability of well-qualified doctors in more necessary, (but more-regulated financially by third party payers) areas of practice.
Hillary medicine = SICKO medicine
As a retired nurse with a lifetime career in infant and maternal health fields I cannot get my head around the men who trained as pediatricians and then became monsters:
http://www.totalsecurity.us/articles/article14.htm
Ayman Zawahiri - al-Qaeda’s #2 leader, an Egyptian pediatrician. His father was a professor of pharmacology and his grandfather was Grand Imam at the most distinguished university of Sunni Islam. Zawahiri has studied pharmacology and psychology. He is well traveled, including Russia, and has had a book published and is reportedly writing another.
from 2004:
http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000199.html
RANTISSI’S SUCCESSOR
The Hamas leader in Gaza Dr Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, one of the world’s bloodiest terrorists, was killed yesterday. Hamas have already chosen a successor. Hamas’s Damascus-based supreme leader Khaled Mashaal has ordered his name kept secret, but Israeli army intelligence believes Rantissi’s heir in the Gaza Strip is Ismail Haniyah, who previously served as Sheikh Yassin’s bureau chief (with Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar serving as Haniyah’s deputy). In the West Bank, it is believed the Hamas head is Hassan Yusuf, who is now in Israeli administrative detention.
(For those wanting to know more about this supposedly working class-based organization - as some Middle East “experts” would have us believe Hamas to be - Khaled Mashaal is a physics teacher; Mahmoud Zahar is a doctor; and the other senior Hamas leader still alive, Moussa Abu Marzook, holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, and lived in the United States for 15 years. In 1995, he was detained by U.S. authorities on suspicion of activities in support of terrorism, but the Clinton administration expelled him rather than put him on trial. He is now in Syria.)
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