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The new restrictions on foreign doctors were introduced following the case of an utterly incompetent US trained Doctor, Jayant Patel, who was working in Queensland hospitals between 2003 and 2005, and who has been linked to the death of up 87 patients in that time, but largely seem to ignore the fact that Patel had been restricted and then lost his medical licence in the US before coming to Australia, and Queensland Health failed to check up on him properly - American authorities had already ruled him unfit to practice. Rather than accept responsibility for their failures, the Queensland government seems to want to try and suggest US medical training isn't generally good enough.

There are many, many foreign trained doctors that are unfit to practice in Western nations. Here we have a case where a Western trained doctor is required to go back to basics and prove he is eligible to practice in a country where he is not certified.....

The entire situation is bizarre.

I guess they have their rules and “zero tolerance”, in other words they’re too stupid to evaluate each situation. What a bunch of idiots. It’s not like this man has to work; he’s been doing it to help them!