Two MGH psychiatry residents travel to Ethiopia and find a huge need for mental health help:
Only a handful of overwhelmed doctors staff this 360-bed hospital — not surprising given that the entire country of 75 million people has just 17 psychiatrists and 190 psychiatric nurses.Earlier this year, two psychiatric residents from Massachusetts General Hospital traveled to the Addis Ababa hospital as the first participants in a program set up by the hospitals to ease the burden on Ethiopia’s doctors and to help teach the country’s newest psychiatry residents — all three of them.
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I wonder how many Ethiopian born psychiatrists practice in the US?
There are more Indian-born psychiatrists in my small state than in all of India.
I wonder if more doctors fresh out of school would be willing to put in some time in third world nations in return for loan forgiveness? Say, $15K for each year of service.
I know I would.
Why would I want to forgive your loan for going to a third world country? Why would the government want to? If you want to give charity for the good of your soul and mankind, you will do it without a gift from me. If you do it for a gift from me, then it isn’t your charity, it is mine.
And if the American taxpayer decides to care about doctor shortages in the third world, they can best do it not by spending money sending you there, but by saving money by not extending special immigration visa’s to the physicians who come here from the third world to milk medicare and medicaid while leaving their countrymen to eat dirt.
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