Opinion

... in response to Physician Shortage
  1. remove the bureaucracy, fix the problem
    Yeop Azman Yeop Azman Croatia says:
    February 16, 2020 at 6:54 AM

    I really did not know there was that the number was that high.  I'm an emergency physician in Croatia, but I do not have an EU citizenship making me stuck here with my EU license.  Institutions do not want to deal with visas, nor does Europe want to bring in "brown" doctors.

    Taking Europe for an example, they make it hard by creating language barriers, licensing barriers, certifications needed, etc.  Asia, America and Australia is not much better.  Why do you have to pay $10,000 for three parts of the USMLE when you have veteran experience in Europe?

    The problem is never the lack of doctors, it's the lack of distribution.  I would love to work in Africa, but then there are visa issues, licensing issues, etc.  It's like the governing bodies (chambers of medicine) think that their country's way of doing medicine is better.

    Tear down the borders, remove the red tape, redistribute the doctors, pay them equally and you'll see that there will be no shortages.  It's the 21st century.

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