Socialists and Communists have always hated the professions and in particular the medical profession calling them a priviledged section of the community.
Soviet-Russia paid their doctors less than their engine drivers and as a result their medical care and doctors were abysmal. Serve the Russian people right. Whether they like it or not they got what they paid for. If you are in court fighting for your life or on the operating table.
You get the best help you can afford. The very best people in medicine or law are few and far between. The new wealthy in China and India will pay much more than you and do not forget this is a Global economy and the best go where the return for their labour is the greatest. The State government and the people who wrote letters of complaint to the Sunday Mail 29.6.08 should remember this. The doctors owe us nothing any more than the builders. We are now part of the Global economy and it is everyone for him/herself.
