Why not put your concerns in writing to the consultant himself now.
Instead we have a ludicrous situation where their very expensive education is funded by the taxpayer and no pay back is received( in this they are not alone).
Yes there was a time when doctors were different and no doube there are many hard working and caring individuals within the group but as a profession they embody the worst excesses of the closed shop.
I had an appointment with a consultant in St James' private clinic yesterday. I was asked for the €200 fee by the receptionist before I even met the consultant. Is this normal? Could you imagine if the hairdresser or restaurant asked you to pay up before you'd even received the service you were there for?
The non EEA you see in the hospitals were not trained here and imo its shows.
Maybe the answer to this is to hop on a cheap flight to some other country for medical care.
I seem to be spending less and less money in Ireland. It's got to the stage where the first place I look for stuff is online, no matter what it is.
Are you implying that non-EEA national doctors' skills and knowledge are inferior to those of Irish doctors???
I am a non-EEA national and there people train for 10 years (4 in secondary medical school and 6 in university) before they can apply for internship. Then they spend few more years in specialist training.
So far, I have been dragged from one Irish consultant to another at anywhere between €150 and €200 a pop, all to be told 'it will pass' and be given yet another prescription. None of them even identified the problem correctly! The only one who really helped me by correctly identifying the problem and booking me in for a minor procedure was a junior doctor, of African descend.
I'd prefer to see the doctors trained here staying here and in turn more medical places for irish students. We taxpayers are paying for this training to leave the country.
Check your facts. The reality is quite the opposite - foreign med students pay the full cost of their training; in fact, the overseas students are generating a healthy income for the medical schools. The allocation of places is an economic choice.
So don't worry, your tax euros are safe from all these foreign trainee doctors. Not that safe from the Irish government though!
I know this. I did say the universites needed these students for the full fees in an earlier post. Yes its generates income for the uni but not all that is needed. When they become an intern and SHO the HSE pays them well.
So once they are trained they return to their own country taking the skills the tax payer paid for (okay in part) with them. I don't have a problem with non EEA doctors at all but as I said most I would prefer the skills they learned benefited the irish not help fund the universities because they need the funds.
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