Comments on: Are foreign medical graduates the answer to primary care? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-answer-to.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:15:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-answer-to.html/comment-page-1#comment-88686 Anonymous Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:23:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-the-answer-to-primary-care.html#comment-88686 Sheesh. FMG's, IMG's, whatever you're calling them these days.....they just reflect the unpopularity of a particular field of medicine. The foreign docs want to be in the United States, and they would rather be an American training in an unpopular specialty than a foreigner in his/her home country doing a more popular thing.<br/><br/>Fine.<br/><br/>But the foreign doc is no different from the American. If small-town America does not appeal to the American doctor from Cleveland, it will not appeal to the Pakistani or Iranian or Filipino doctor either. In fact, it will likely be less appealing.<br/><br/>The foreign doc will be out of the little town FP practice as quick as the American......maybe even quicker. Sheesh. FMG’s, IMG’s, whatever you’re calling them these days…..they just reflect the unpopularity of a particular field of medicine. The foreign docs want to be in the United States, and they would rather be an American training in an unpopular specialty than a foreigner in his/her home country doing a more popular thing.

Fine.

But the foreign doc is no different from the American. If small-town America does not appeal to the American doctor from Cleveland, it will not appeal to the Pakistani or Iranian or Filipino doctor either. In fact, it will likely be less appealing.

The foreign doc will be out of the little town FP practice as quick as the American……maybe even quicker.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-answer-to.html/comment-page-1#comment-88653 Anonymous Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-the-answer-to-primary-care.html#comment-88653 It is one thing to import cheap foreign labor to pull the weeks and clean the toilet. This is quite another thing and is not a solution, but rather a sign of a serious problem that needs a solution. It is one thing to import cheap foreign labor to pull the weeks and clean the toilet. This is quite another thing and is not a solution, but rather a sign of a serious problem that needs a solution.

]]> By: moneduloides http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-answer-to.html/comment-page-1#comment-88650 moneduloides Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:18:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/are-foreign-medical-graduates-the-answer-to-primary-care.html#comment-88650 I understand that in the UK the primary care physicians (Gatekeepers, I think they're called) are given a pretty hefty bonus each year for keeping their patients healthy. This seems like a pretty effective way of decreasing the income disparity between the two groups.<br/><br/>And this is really only one example of all the ways our healthcare system can learn from other countries. I only wish we weren't so stubborn... I understand that in the UK the primary care physicians (Gatekeepers, I think they’re called) are given a pretty hefty bonus each year for keeping their patients healthy. This seems like a pretty effective way of decreasing the income disparity between the two groups.

And this is really only one example of all the ways our healthcare system can learn from other countries. I only wish we weren’t so stubborn…

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