Re: Native English

Robert Bannister wrote:

I hope I've got this wrong, but as far as I can make out, in Western
Australia at least it is the doctor's trade union or whatever they
call it that keeps new graduates out, so that the government is
forced to make up the shortfall with non-English speaking doctors
from the Balkans. I suspect this is how "Dr Death" came to be
employed in Queensland too.

For the basic MBBS, or whatever the first qualification is called, I
believe it's the federal government that decides how many new students
may be accepted in each university each year. Of course the graduates
still have to be accepted into hospitals as interns, but I think the
real bottleneck is at the point where first year students arrive.

In the case of specialists, there is a longstanding argument between the
government and the Painters and Doctors Union over who is to blame for
the shortage. It seems very likely to me that the established
specialists are indeed trying to keep the competition down.

Queensland is a special case, as always. You might recall someone a few
years ago - I've forgotten his name - who was making a fortune with his
miracle cure for cancer. (Most of his patients died of cancer, but only
after they had parted with substantial sums of money.) This person had
already been deregistered in two countries when the Queensland
government welcomed him with open arms, and announced that Queensland
was now the place to come if you had incurable cancer. Eventually he
was kicked out of Australia, and I gather that he's now raking in the
money on some Pacific Island, but he was accepted for quite some time.

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