Goes to show how time I spend on this blog,
But anyway...it is pretty ironic that this blog is called new ideas but there was hardly anything new..politics have always been the same..broken promises and all that but here is definitely a new one....shortage of doctors? Why can't nurses take professional exams that will upgrade them to doctors how about one for paramedical staff...like for accountants you get a basic degree and after that there are a hundred and one course that will upgrade you into a chartered accountant or you can take the profesional route like CIMA and ACCA. SO why not for doctors and if you want to talk about competence and efficiency I can say many nurses with their experience are competent than many doctors.
Somehow I have a nagging suspicion that the doctor's union will be trying to control the supply side. Imagine that if there is suddenly like a deluge of doctors like in Italy, Russia and Cuba where it is not glamourous to be doctors, market forces will cause wages to fall. Now the car loan for the Porsche and loan for the house on the Southside assumes that you have the same level of pay if not more for the next 30 years so if we solve this crisis too soon and fast there may be many defaulters...I don't know this is mere speculation and I don't want to be smearing people's names but I was just wondering why not explore this route..it is not as though there are not precedents.
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Hmm.. not sure if many nurses would want to be upgraded to become doctors.How many more years of training would they need? Very interesting radical idea.. but... still think there's some reason the medical course was set to be 5-years, and specialising, another 5-years.. and what would happen if we ran out of nurses? :)
Oh,something irrelevant and unconnected: Did you know that plumbers in the UK are paid A LOT more than doctors?Haha. 50-100 pounds an hour ok! Wow. And to think it's so different back in Malaysia.
Well I assume with all the mistreatment and lording doctors give nurses, they would like to be upgraded. But I was looking through the MSF website and most of the time nurses are more or less doing the work of doctors because for obvious reasons you can't find doctors in poor areas though stragely there are more than enough of them in private practise.
With the basics that they already have I don't see how much extra work it will take to upgrade them.
Maybe if this( plumbers being well-paid) is the situation back home there won't be so much demand places in medicine back home. People say medicine is a noble profession but as far as the eye can see the people in it are anything but noble. If they are then there won't be a lack of healthcare access in the rural areas. It is merely the good work of a handful that upholds this public assumption but with each passing year we moving closer to the reputation that lawyers have.
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