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If you want the very best in diagnosis come to America...

If you want the very best care..go to Europe..

AMA means no competition..affirmative action in med schools and limited classes and unreal high tution certainly doesnt help matters..

Much of the family practice crisis could be obviated by Nurse Practitioners and PA (Physician Assistant) programs if restrictions were limited and tort law reformed.. (and lawyers muzzled in many cases)

A 4.0 is not necessarily a great predictor of who is going to make a better doctor...as a person carrying a 3.0 ,working a job ,supporting a wife & kids might be better suited to doctoring than some 4.0 rich kid punk...with attitude..

Fluency in english wouldnt hurt either...imo

>>>If you want the very best in diagnosis come to America... If you want the very best care..go to Europe..<<<

I have heard from academics on a few occasions that the more doctors there are, the more supposed ailments supposedly exist which are suddenly diagnosed as being "urgent" health problems. But that was back before HMOs and insurance rationing (or discontinuation) came about and made such self-aggrandizing practices less lucrative. While I think there should be more doctors (as long as they're COMPETENT), I wouldn't want to see the emergence of more supposed ailments that we're shamed into thinking we're too poor to be able to treat. It's fine if doctors want to laugh their way to the bank, golf course, and riviera....as long as there are plenty of other doctors who can gladly service angry customers like us. Right now there's so little competition it's a joke (except to Americans, who are only starting to wake up).

I have a wonderful doctor from Jordan who trained in New York State but I do have to listen very carefully in order to catch everything he says. Professors are the same. We've had some professors who, it seems, could barely speak English. And we expect our students to learn from them? When the Affirmative Action officer at the time suggested to the minority professors that lessons to improve their language and diction skills were available, she was roundly criticized because she did racial profiling. Well, it's the Africans and other minority professors who had the problem. PC! Makes me crazy.