On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang <[email protected]>wrote:
> Isn't this happening in western countries too? There is a serious shortage > of GPs in most western countries (particularly in rural areas, just like > India) and it is getting worse for the same reason - medical education is > pricing itself out of all sane limits, leading to doctors looking for the > big money in highly specialized care in fancy hospitals. > > In the west this means either ridiculously long waits to see a GP, or first > level diagnosis from overworked nurses or pharmacists with far less > training. That's leading to a shortage of nurses and pharmacists too. It > seems to me like the same story playing out everywhere. > So...what would be the situation where this model would actually work? Seems to me to be a very anti-people model, even in the western world for which it was designed. But in the US, now I find that there are nurse-practitioners who see less serious cases...paralegals who see to the "lower cases"...and so on...perhaps that's what we should introduce in India, too, instead of spurious doctors who advertise their names with the "Dr" in brackets, or qualifications with lines over them!
