Polish doctors fly over just to work in the UK

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7187094.stm

I know what some of you will say none of you will say POland should pay ther docs and they did have to do that shame ok Poland can do without the make bed veg picks type of work but when the docs start to leave will not take long to this place be like Nigeria

and the service is bad he is tired but the polish doc he dont care all he want is money more money to live a life his parents could not now he can get what germany and the russians did not let his parents have ..

and he call himself a doc maybe in Poland east europe

and yes note the the BBC say East europe it mean places the has low quality of life then in the western europe for the ones that are not familiar with the term East europe that is what it means ....

This is proof, if proof were needed, that the NHS has scant regard for its patients.

It shouldn't be allowed. It shouldn't be allowed, not because he is from another country, but because there is no way he can be alert enough all the time to make sound decisions.

Typical penny pinching NHS.

It should not be allowed simply for the reason that Polish doctors are dreadful. I had a private operation once in Poland and my God, it was awful! He had no regard for pain killers and even now, after all these years, the memory haunts me to this day! I am not a science or medical man myself but even before the operation things he was saying simply did not add up. Make sure you have a good qualified doctor. A lot of these Communist trained doctors from the East are not up to scratch.

i also agree that it shouldnt be allowed, not because polish doctors are not upto scratch, my private GP in Scotland was polish and a great Doc. But because that kind off work load can lead to mistakes happening, it doesnt matter how good your medical skills are, we shouldnt expect any medical professional to work those kind of hours.

Polish people will do almost anything for money and will promise you the earth. Beware!

^^^very true, only Polish people, no other nationalities will do anything for money and make false promises, absolutely none.*sarcasm off*

My friend was pregnant and having a lot of pain in her belly. Somehow she knew something was really wrong with her pregnancy, but once she was going to hospital every time and doctors kept saying everything was fine, she let it go. When she completed 8 month she went to Poland and found out her baby had died in her tummy 3 month ago.

bad doctors are everywhere, please don`t generalize!

This isnt a new thing. I guess they must have run out of stories so they picked up on this issue again.
There was a really interesting programme on the bbc about young british doctors who are well underpaid and school leavers not being interested in medicine due to the fact they can earn more in other professions. There have been german doctors working in NHS hospitals one and off for years and same for south africans.

brazilii, you are quite new to these forums, so a word of advice - don't waste your time on Michal, he's spent over a year here writing stupid, full of hatred (against Poland and Polish people) crap all the time, he won't change :)

Thanks, but some people here just drive me crazy!

The majority of doctors that are making mistakes and costing the NHS - grievances, going off sick for months at a time with stress and making the most of free training in the UK are overseas doctors (I dont mean EU), you see they come here, get all the nice free training and then apply for a British passport!...unbelieveable! And they are UNGREATFUL and crap!

We need to invest in young British doctors, not foreign ones whose grammer isnt even elementary!....tsk!
I'd rather take my chances with a Polish Dr. any day of the week!

Not to mention muslim doctors that are refusing to do medical checks on women or treat people with alchol related problems....tis true folkes...

i feel sorry for your friend :( i can`t imagine that happening to me.

i only just recently found out what was wrong with me when i was pregnant. i couln`t understand why i was having such a severe morning sickness while other pregnant women would have gone through it months ago and i was still feeling awful and the doctors here didn`t tell me anything, didn`t want to help me saying it was normal (?), were not happy that i was on sick leave encouraging me to go back to work while all i was able to do was throw up all the time and sleep. a few days ago i did some research on the internet and found that i suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum which is a pregnancy illness affecting only about 1% of pregnant women and is far worse than normal morning sickness. the doctors know only little about it and it pains me cuz i know how hard it is and i know there are women who had to terminate their pregnancies becuz they could not take the severe nausea and vomiting anymore, they were dehydrated in hospital and not being understood! i really just wanted to die myself but i bet if it was men that had to be pregnant and go through this, the cure for it would have been found two centuries ago! so all in all the bloody health system (all around the world) is seriously messed up.

i`m also not particularly happy about the fact that i can`t see a specialist doctor so easily. my baby has had a rash for over a month and i went to see a gp (immigrant gp from somewhere in asia, i couldn`t even understand what he was saying lol) 2 times and last time he told me that it`s viral and is gonna go away in a few days (ok not sure if viral rashes stay for as long as a month but he didn`t even know the rash was there for this long cuz he bloody didnt let me finish my sentence as i was explaning what`s wrong with my son!). well that was a week ago and every day joshie is getting more spots. next time i go with him to the gp, i`ll ask to be referred to a dermatologist.

ok i got a bit pissed off right now lol *goes to the kitchen to get some rice pudding to calm her down*

My friend`s doctor was born-and-bred british I`m afraid.

Self diagnosis, doesnt mean that's what you had - you are not a professional....sorry but some women aren't good with pregnancy and some florish!

well lucky you if you were or will be the flourishing one.

hyperemesis.org.uk/

i didn`t exactly sefl-diagnose myself, my gp wrote on my sick leave that i had hyperemesis but didn`t bother to explain it to me saying it was normal morning sickness. well it was far from normal morning sickness, it was far more intense and lasted much much longer than morning sickness. you don`t even have to be a doctor to be able to diagnose that! once you`ve gone throught it, you know it wasn`t average.