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Letter in Indo

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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    I dont know do I fully agree, however in principle it is the truth. The constant race the irish public have these days for lowest cost will cause quality services to disappear and the market will adapt to service this low cost at all costs attitude.

    Healthcare is not something to shop for in TKmax, not all healthcare professionals are the same and the services they provide although call the same are not of equal quality

    The level of training required to provide healthcare at the highest international levels expected by the consumer requires sacrifice on the part of the professional and shortens their productive working life due to long underpaid or no pay training schemes. When these professionals find they can no longer catch up with their lesser trained competition and that the public do not value their quality, training, expertise and knowledge they will seek employment in a more enlightened market.

    The bitter taste of low quality remains long after the sweetness of low cost in gone. In this recession it would seem that the public do not want to go without, they want what they had before just at the price they feel they want to pay.


  • #3
    res ipsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭res ipsa


    Looks like this guy Green is on a mission.
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2010/0218/1224264713382.html


  • #4
    BryanL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭BryanL


    http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/letters/privileged-professions-should-cut-their-fees-112943.html

    From todays Examiner.

    I'm not sure what he means by privileged occupation? I'd have made a lot more money as a builder or "developer" over the last few years.
    Bryan


  • #5
    res ipsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭res ipsa


    BryanL wrote: »
    http://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/letters/privileged-professions-should-cut-their-fees-112943.html

    From todays Examiner.

    I'm not sure what he means by privileged occupation? I'd have made a lot more money as a builder or "developer" over the last few years.
    Bryan

    That dude should have a read of this thread.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055799819


  • #6
    day dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 599 ✭✭✭day dreamer


    Too true bryan and a very real decscription of a doctors training. It should be part of the CAO form!

    Most people dont realise the training and years of pain, study, sleep loss and sacrifices of family/hobbies/life that those in the medical profession put in.

    It may seem a lot for a 5 or 10 minute consultation but what the patient is really paying for is 6 years of medical school, 5 years of putting up with ****e while an intern or SHO, a few years unpaid doing research, another 5 years as a Registrar, then taking a consultant position wherever you can get it.

    No-one is going to go through that, no matter how idealistic and caring, without a financial incentive at the end. I have 2 brothers who are doctors and did not do medicine when I saw what they had to do


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  • #7
    Irlandese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭Irlandese


    day dreamer wrote: »
    Too true bryan and a very real decscription of a doctors training. It should be part of the CAO form!

    Most people dont realise the training and years of pain, study, sleep loss and sacrifices of family/hobbies/life that those in the medical profession put in.

    It may seem a lot for a 5 or 10 minute consultation but what the patient is really paying for is 6 years of medical school, 5 years of putting up with ****e while an intern or SHO, a few years unpaid doing research, another 5 years as a Registrar, then taking a consultant position wherever you can get it.

    No-one is going to go through that, no matter how idealistic and caring, without a financial incentive at the end. I have 2 brothers who are doctors and did not do medicine when I saw what they had to do
    Doctors and consultants in other european countries suffer more orless the same problems, but, guess what? They cost a quarter of what you pay in Ireland.
    Comhairle na n-Ospideal is supposed to be an independant advisory body to the minister on the nature and number and location of consultant posts. It is in fact unofficially a lobby for the consultants.
    They are a gang of very polite and very nice smelling gangsters !


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