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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (44942)	2/27/2002 12:38:13 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

India is a powder keg. Intercommunal strife has not abated; there is still the issue of Kashmir; and Pakistan and India are poised to bomb one another.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (44942)	2/27/2002 12:43:52 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

The joys of socialized medicine. Is this what Hillary and her cohorts have in mind for us? Blair appoints NHS ambassador to woo foreign surgeons Staff and agencies Wednesday February 27, 2002 The prime minister, Tony Blair, today appointed a pioneering heart surgeon as an NHS ambassador to scour the world for 450 foreign consultants to fill empty hospital posts. Sir Magdi Yacoub will lead a scheme to promote English medicine abroad in the latest government attempt to attract foreign consultants to understaffed hospitals. Sir Magdi will act as the government's special envoy for the health service, and will tour the globe searching for NHS fellows as far afield as Canada and New Zealand. The International Fellowship Scheme for the NHS - which is backed by the medical Royal Colleges and the British Medical Association - wants to attract hundreds of extra heart and lung surgeons, psychiatrists and radiologists as soon as possible. Sir Magdi, who made Harefield Hospital in Middlesex famous with his pioneering heart transplant work, recently turned 66, making him too old under NHS rules to continue performing operations. There are around 670 unfilled consultancy posts in English hospitals, which is equivalent to a vacancy rate of 3%.