Please don´t presume to tell me what I think
Unlike you and Christine (who assumed I had never worked for the NHS) I never presume, I just read your posts. I see nothing in my "summing up" which was not taken directly from your posts canim
“Oh - I only worked in the NHS for 20 years - I thought I saw a lot of foreign House Officers - and a lot of native British doctors having to seek jobs abroad because there were too many junior doctors after too few jobs”.
"I never thought of that being the reason. We are so used in the UK to employing doctors from all over the world in our hospitals and it seems to be the same for most ancillary medical staff - but then I suppose the majority of them trained in the UK in the first place "
"Not blaming the foreign doctors - just telling you a huge number of them get their training in the UK! "
"Yes they come to the UK to train, and a large number of them then return to their home countries - where, especially in the Indian subcontinent - they can set up in private practice with the added kudos of an MRCP qualification. I don´t blame them but don´t say they don´t get as much advantage from us as we do from them. And it doesn´t alter the fact that it makes it harder and harder for doctors born in the UK (of whatever race or creed) to compete for jobs because in recent years there have been too many doctors for the junior post positions available in the UK."
"What you read about the NHS and what you see when you work in it can be very different - however I don´t work in it any longer thank god so maybe I´m not qualified to argue with you! "
"Well I think Christine seems to agree with me that we might just know a bit more about the way things really are than you! "
Edited (11/2/2009) by TheAenigma
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