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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (2763)	11/7/2007 9:08:01 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

<<<The figures reveal the size of the staffing problems facing hospitals after botched reforms to medical training...>>> Of course you have to have a healthy balance, but I don't want a doctor that is always on the phone with their stock broker or real estate agents. Being a doctor is not like being a lawyer or insurance salesman. There will always be a shortage of good doctors who view their profession as a caling and they will never go hungry.

To: TimF who wrote (2763)	11/8/2007 11:19:34 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I can almost see how a misguided doctor might lose touch with the Hippocratic oath long enough to deny a patient an ankle repair if they are grossly obese, but what does smoking have to do with it? "Most hospitals hoped to fill posts by tomorrow, but some criminal records bureau checks will not be completed in time. Hundreds of overseas doctors in London are estimated to need checks." Here it is again. I can just see the next 19 terrorists having jobs as doctors in formerly prestigious hospitals after socialized medicine squeezes most of the profits out of the medical profession.