Posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 0:58:38
In reply to Re: Dr Bob??, posted by alexandra_k on March 10, 2016, at 0:35:13
Anyway... So a bunch of medical school places go to international students. Who pay a lot of fees. But who don't get guarantee of work placement where work placement is part of the accreditation process. And so the idea is that they might want to train here... If they can go home for the placement and accreditation (if they will accept our training for their own accreditation system).
Otherwise... For locals... I'm starting to get the sense that... There is a local interest in selecting local candidates who will scrape through the Australasian accreditation process such that they will take the bottom of the food chain positions here in NZ. The best positions in NZ will (of course) go to Australian graduates (who don't quite make positions in Sydney or Melbourne or wherever). Basically... Out of reach of the NZ grads. Pretty sure...
I feel this sense of ambivalence...
Science is a weird thing. Let it be official. My official opinion (fwiw ahahahaha f*ck*ng ha) is that y'all are a bunch of weirdos... The whole accreditation thing is about jumping through hoops. A succession of hoops. Such that you learn the most important lesson of all: To go 'aaaaaaaaaaw feel better' in the face of palliative care. Because: We don't have a health system. We can go 'we have a government funded equitable health system' by which we mean 'everybody gets exactly the same: nothing'. So... Nods and smiles... And so on... And the system is answerable to: Lowest cost and highest customer satisfaction. The reason nobody cares about actually educating people is for the obvious reason that customer satisfaction would go down. We educate people about the dangers of 'unnecessary tests' and 'unnecessary treatments' and 'dangers of antibiotics' (nevermind heart valve issues from your rheumatic fever) and so on...
But Fred Hollows did this awesome thing of going on tour... Across the Australian outback... Doing eye cateract surgery... Saving heaps of poor people from blindness...
And I have a vision.. About f*ck*ng grommits. And about the world being quieter...
haha.
Anyways....
$150,000 it will cost you. To get your brain tumor removed* (*ymmv). And.. Depending on the person... The amount they earn.. How many working years ahead of them... It could well be worth the government funding that surgery.. For, uh, some population or other... (Macquarie, Sydney).
Anyways...
Lemmie play. No fair.
I'm afraid I"m getting older. But then, that's a myth we tell so the young'uns go off to fight (die) so that most of the rest of us can live in happy democracy (without too many kids). Unfortunately... NZ hasn't seen fit to send it's (many many many many many) unruly youth for glory or else... For a while now... I see that's why we should respect those who died 'so the rest of us may live'... In the conditions we have been accostomed to... I Mean... Imagine if they ALL had felt entitled to a university education...
I feel afraid...
All I can do is work as hard as I can and hope I do okay...
LIfe is very different at a university... With high stakes. That's the thing. Where I studied before... The arts... Flourished. Actually. Here... Oppression. There are high stakesk things in the vicinity... Engineering (think what you could potentially do for infrastructure / the impact you could have in undermining a thriving exploitative business)... Law (well respected school... Medicine.. Etc... Higher stakes here... But also: The city. Attracting the unsavory elements that are attracted to... Cities.
I do miss Canberra. The whole: There is nothing to do in Canberra but: Work. And talk to people who are enthusiastic about their work. Researcher's heaven... And not many undergraduates... And a civil service full of former PhD students... Why do they want to sent the NZ PhD students back home????? How are we supposed to function here, nevermind flourish?????? And suppose we want to do what a bunch of Aussie students do: Go do med school. No graduate studnet pathway for us. Will y'all even let us do that before we retire???
C'mon.
Let someone do poplhlth in a way that isn't following the whole extermination strategy. Lets pick the working parts of culture and work those parts forward for the benefit of the whole fukcing world. Puh lease.
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