Rich Countries Contribute To 'brain Drain' Of Doctors From Third World

We never asked to be inundated with unreliably trained foreign-doctors anyway--send em' back. Make us happy.

Sure we asked. We ask every time we cling to our North Korean health care model, because the central planners can't figure out how many docs will be needed in advance. Many Cdn saps may think it their patriotic duty to have shitty health care. I will take an immigrant dr over no doctor any day of the week.

"Sure we asked. We ask every time we cling to our North Korean health care model, because the central planners can't figure out how many docs will be needed in advance. Many Cdn saps may think it their patriotic duty to have shitty health care. I will take an immigrant dr over no doctor any day of the week."


Health care has been cut downloaded onto debt-ridden provinces for 20+ years now.

Also, the college of physcians and surgeonds engineers shortages so their members get more hours--hence more money.

You seem to be missing the point. The study published in the New England Journal of Medicine acusses rich countries, inlcuding Canada, of plundering skilled workers from the third world. Plunder is plunder whether it is natural or human resources. The irony is that many on the left, especially third world immigrants themselves, support massive third world immigration to Canada yet condemn the rape of the third world by the rich nations. How is extracting oil from Nigeria and sending it west different from extracting medical professionals from India and sending them west? To me it is the same thing and it should stop. Canada should stop poaching the developing world of its skilled workers and concentrate on training Canadians to fill labour shortages. I know this is an uphill battle. There is a lot of money to be made and votes bought via Canada's human trafficking industry.

Its nice to see the New England Journal of Medicine support my position that third world immigration to Canada is another avenue of third world plunder. We, as concerned Canadians, should oppose this especially now since Volpe irresponsibly decided to up Canada's immigrant intake which only means a greater plunder of the third world. But an election is coming up and the Liberals need to buy votes and Canada's ethnic communities are always willing to sell them to the Liberals. I marvel at how proud the ethnic communites of Canada are of their homelands yet see no harm in supporting a policy that contributes to the stagnation of their home countries' development. But you can't build your colonies here in Canada when the border is closed can you?

Good points.

Agreed. Like someone using the world wide web to rant about evil America and globalization - the duplicitous left wing exposed again.

Don't forget Libs also want to maintain our population so we can continue to run unsustainable social programs. Canadians just aren't producing quickly enough to replace ourselves. So how else can we maintain our moronic health care (with annual billion $ fixes for a generation) and our CPP program which is essentially inter-generational theft? Not to mention sponsorship programs.
Wayne

I absolutely disagree. People are not objects...they are conscious beings with hopes and dreams. You write as if doctors in poor countries are property of the nations they are living in. This is disgusting. Many well-trained professionals are, in fact, unable to practice in their 'home' countries due to war, ethnic discrimination, or lack of resources. Many that I have met in various countries (such as Cuba) have abandoned their professions to work in tourism, etc., where they can earn more, since many of them can speak English. Further, immigrants who come to Canada end up helping their home countries by sending money. In any case, it is always impressive to find how both 'liberals' and 'conservatives' scramble to find excuses to close the border to people who don't look like them, each using their own statist views; i.e. the liberal 'Oh, the poor, helpless people in those Third World countries...they don't know what's best for them...let's throw them some coins and prop up their corrupt governments so we don't have to feel guilty about shutting them out of our country', and the conservtive 'we need to close the borders to prevent crime/disease/immorality/
pigmentation/Islam from invading our proud (White, Christian) nation.' Both are just as sickening.

actually, I find that foreign-trained physicians are far superior to their North American-trained colleagues (and I am a North American trained M.D.), since they know how to diagnose illnesses without sending everyone for an MRI...they actually know how to do a physical exam, a skill long lost by many of us...