DO YOU HAVE A GOOD FAMILY DOCTOR ?

[newstart2380]

Recently I was very sick and had been seeing a doctor who is a nice person but misdiagnosed my illness after seeing that doctor for 3 months. I ended up in the emergency room at the hospital and then was admitted for a time.

I was lucky enough to see a doctor on duty in the ER and he shook his head and could not believe i was still walking around at all.

The doctor I had been seeing had no idea and in my opinion should not be practising at all until better qualified, scary to think we are allowing doctors into this country that are not qualified enough because of the so called shortage.

[cherry*135]

Under trained Dr's coming mostly (not all) from overseas and sent to country areas without the necessary knowledge or skills to treat people who may have something more serious than a cold or pimple.

What do you mean by undertrained Doctor's? Any qualified Doctor from overseas moving to Australia, has to pass the AMC (Australian Medical Council) exam before they canapply for registration in Australia.Apply with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) for medical registration. English lanuage proficiency tests also.

If they fail these tests they get work as taxi drivers etc.

Working in rural areas is not that popular for Doctor's ( have to work longer hours, be on call out of hours,  hard to get relief if they want a weekend off or holiday), so perhaps those that aren't the top of the bunch go for the rural jobs.

[newstart2380]

I agree they do go to rural areas where they are needed urgently but they are dealing with people's lives and we only get one of those. I guess the saying " some doctors bury their mistakes" could be very true. I am so glad I was not one in this instance,

[lyndal1838]

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@goo**spew wrote:

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@lyndal1838 wrote:

My mother worked for nearly 40 years in a large, very busy medical clinic and it was a well known and discussed fact that Indian doctors who had trained in India were rather "hard" on patients...they had very little sympathy or empathy and treated patients like a production line...in and out as quickly as possible and no explanation of their condition.

There was a theory that life was not valued in India and doctors just had to treat as many as possible in the shortest possible time.  That is certainly how it appeared when the doctors came to Australia....they just were not as thorough as Australian trained doctors.

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What rubbish. Perhaps in 1960, Australians in all lines of work had time for people but today I find they hurry along everyone. They don't care, you're just a number. At least the Asian doctors ask you about prior medical history and show an interest. They are also smarter because they have to be if they want to live in this country. Australians don't have that motivation. 

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Just so we are clear here....my Mother worked in that clinic from the mid 1950s to the late 1980s.  It was in central Sydney and was a specialist clinic working in shipping, insurance and workers compensation.  The Indian doctors were bought to Australia at the request of the shipping lines to help overcome the language problems with the Indian ship's crews.  They were supposedly specialists in their field of medicine.  They were not just Indian doctors migrating to Australia with their families and having to find their own jobs.

Almost without exception there were so many complaints about them that their contracts were not renewed.

In comparison, the doctors of other nationalities only left of their own accord...there were no complaints.

And you might note that I said "doctors who trained in India" as against Australian trained doctors.

There has been an Indian doctor in my suburb for many years and he is very popular...but he is Australian born and trained.