Australia Is Desperate For Doctors - So Why Are We Putting Them Through a System That Keeps Them Out While Patients Suffer
Australia Is Desperate for Doctors. So Why Are We Making It So Hard for Them to Practise? There is something deeply wrong when a country is crying out for doctors, patients are waiting months or years for operations, and people with serious medical conditions are left waiting for care ,yet qualified doctors from overseas can spend years trying to get through the system that allows them to practise here. On the west coast of Australia, the shortage of doctors is not an abstract political debate. It affects real people, real families and real lives. Behind every long waiting list is someone in pain, someone whose condition may be deteriorating, and someone wondering how much longer they can afford to wait. So why are we making it so difficult for overseas-trained doctors to help? I know of a Malaysian medical graduate who has spent her life achieving the highest academic results. Since the age of four, she has consistently achieved high distinctions. She has now sat the Australia...