Doctors without jobs in the UK: The training system is "in shambles"

March 2, 2007

Not enough job openings for junior doctors. Hospitals are closing, limiting patient access. Something is grotesquely wrong over there.



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{ 3 comments }

1 Anonymous March 2, 2007 at 11:33 pm

As pointed out by Hayek in “The Road to Serfdom” 60 years ago, centralized planners can never match resoures to demands the way the free market can. Everything that he predicted would occur in Britain as a result of it’s socialist experiment did indeed occur. Read it.

2 Anonymous March 3, 2007 at 3:00 pm

They should come over here. Allegedly, all our doctors are “fleeing”.

3 Anonymous March 4, 2007 at 7:37 pm

Great idea 3PM! And we could swap them our parasitic lawyers at a ratio of 10:1.

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