[arthurus]

All they have to do is make MD an undergraduate course and award MDs to everyone now in school who has passed an anatomy class. Thus our English style New Medicine can have the same talented doctors that England is declining to. The cream of the English medical crop are in Asia- India and Thailand- practicing freemarket medicine.

[badgerlandjim]

Yep. Lower the standards. Problem solved. Plenty of MDs. A Doogie Howser wannabe in every clinic! Quick! Somebody put this idea in Obama’s new suggestion box. See if he tries to take the credit for it.

[ArmstedFragg]

Two years ago, the NHS introduced an automated system for placement of new physicians. It functioned so poorly that roughly half that year’s graduates didn’t get assigned anywhere. That, and the NHS importing large numbers of doctors from India, is the reason many of England’s brighter new doctors don’t practice in England.

Good reading:
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/
http://www.drrant.net/

[EQAndyBuzz]

“All they have to do is make MD an undergraduate course and award MDs to everyone now in school who has passed an anatomy class. Thus our English style New Medicine can have the same talented doctors that England is declining to. The cream of the English medical crop are in Asia- India and Thailand- practicing freemarket medicine.”

An appointment at my primary care physician goes something like this:

Doc: Hello. What’s wrong today?
Me: Check up.
Doc: You look fatter. Scale says you are up 12 pounds.
Me: Pressure, stress.
Doc: You allergic to any drugs?
Me: No
Doc: Here’s a sample for Crestor. Here’s a prescription. Also, go take a blood test.
Me: OK
Doc: Turn your head and cough.
Me: Cough.
Doc: Hmmm...
Me: What?
Doc: Oh nothing. Anything else I can do for you? Your heart is beating, you have a pulse and there are no veggies growing out of your ears.
Me: Nope, that’s about it.
Doc: Ok. Go to the front and pay the admin.

15 minutes, in and out. I will be more than happy to do that for 100 kwatloos. Tell Bambi to give me a call.