"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Outsourcing Healthcare: England has been recruiting doctors from outside the UK for some time to make up for a physician shortage and cut down on patient waiting times. Matthew Holt notes that some of those recruits are American. He notes that most of them are either doctors who "hit a glass ceiling" or those at the end of their career, but not newly minted doctors. I suppose moving to England and getting paid a salary would be appealing to doctors who are no longer working to support their families. I'm betting most of them are of the near-retirement variety. It would be interesting to know the age break-down and their reasons for signing up.
UPDATE: The Glittering Eye notes a reverse trend - the Sub-Saharan medical braindrain to Western countries, and questions the morality of wealthy nations harvesting the medical minds and bodies of poorer nations. posted by Sydney on
10/26/2004 07:59:00 AM
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