On Tuesday 10 Mar 2009 5:04:41 pm Anish Mohammed wrote: > Hi Shiv, > I have to agree to disagree with you. Your views about NHS I beleive come > from your days in UK. Things have changed quite a bit, I have quite a few > Asian ( and Indian) friends who are consultants, and even some classmates > of mine from medical school ( yep, I am a fellow medic, gone nuts :-) ) > regards > Anish
Anish - I saw how the change occurred and the process of change started 20 years ago. i still have a lot of consultant friends in the UK. Some contemporaries who are really senior and at the top of their profession - and a few younger people. But the NHS was set up and thrived on imported cheap labour. What exists now in the UK is a pale shadow of that NHS. If that labour did not exist - the NHS could never have been run the way it was. It is a lot different now. Mind you it certainly was a fair deal for the doctors who came in and life was a lot easier - although they got paid a lot less. If it had not been a fair deal - the doctors would not have gone to the UK in the first place. And that is the point I was making. Indians will do menial jobs for low salaries if the life they get is better than what they have in India. That class of Indian still exists (in surprisingly large numbers) and will still be ready to gobble up any menial jobs that may come up as Europe's population ages. shiv
