There is probably a lot more poaching by Canada from the UK and particularly South Africa etc. then the US poaches from Canada. Our local hospital has two doctors from South Africa and one from Poland, and that is the total number of doctors there.
Cheers, Ken Hanly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:20 PM Subject: [PEN-L:32027] Re: re: US needs 1.2 million more nurses by 2010 > At 08/11/02 07:08 -0500, you wrote: > >Chris: > >This is definitely not a new problem. It has been the same with > >'poaching' from Canada. It is one of the reasons that the English > >speaking metropolitan countries have used English countries for sourcing > >nurses (& drs let us add) as we have discussed on the list before. > >It may - I grant you - be getting worse. > >H > > > Yes it is not new, and it may be getting worse. > > > >
