Interesting. I’ve posted the following comments:
“Matt, thanks for this excellent piece – it is indeed a scandal that we are poaching doctors from poor countries.
There’s an angle you don’t touch on, but it’s apt that the image of a rejected potential medical student is that of a man. Since the 1970s the medical schools have preferenced female candidates over male candidates, and the ratio of medical students has been 2:1 in favour of women for half a century.
Women who complete medical studies are more likely than the men never to practise medicine. Female doctors are far more likely than male doctors to work part-time, whether or not they have children. They tend to to choose certain lines of work, and not work unsocial hours. The results are most obvious in the GP service, where over 50% of doctors are female and the proportion is rising as older male doctors retire. The GP service has long been in crisis as a direct result. Much of the rest of the NHS has been in crisis as a direct result.
A proportionate and rational measure would be for state-funded medical training to be limited to men for 20 years, longer if necessary.”
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