Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: 23 Aug 2004 15:37:05 -0500

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> As for Canada, they have to invest a lot of students who leave the
>country. They call it the brain drain. It is especially acute for nations
>like India where there are few doctors and a lot of people and not much
>cash. We should at least train the physicians we need and not give the cost
>to someone else.

> As for medical education, it ought to be free to the student and that
>should reflect itself in the fees charged to patients. No med student
>should graduate with huge debts.

On this point, I will agree. The same should be the case
for the good college students; scholarships should be by
ability only, instead of essentially being by "need" only.

The level of the high schools should be GREATLY increased
for those who are college material; it is totally inadequate
in mathematics and science now. Most of the present students
have been harmed by the pre-college education, and could not
meet the qualifications of roughly a half century ago; that
was about the peak of the American undergraduate program. 

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Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
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