Jamie Chang @ Thu, 10/27/2005 - 10:44am
Hey everyone! Here's a great idea: let's provide little public health funding for poor countries, then take all of their good doctors, and then let's all wonder why all the poor people are dying of curable diseases and complications in simple procedures!
Another reason why global public health is at a not-so-steady decline.
- Miss Chang
October 26, 2005 - "A new study documents for the first time the devastating exodus of doctors from Africa and the Caribbean to the wealthy, English-speaking nations of the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, which now depend on international medical graduates for a quarter of their physicians....Dr. Mullan said the inflow of doctors was less the result of deliberate policies in the wealthy countries than of their failure to produce enough doctors to fill their own needs. For example, the United States has about 17,000 medical school graduates each year for 22,000 first-year residency slots."