that’s why b.c. premier david eby , ontario premier doug ford and others have been announcing they want to address the national health-care “crisis” by smoothing the way for potentially thousands of foreign-trained physicians to work in canada.
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it has developed a global protocol for the international recruiting of health personnel , which attempts to limit the often-detrimental effects of the brain drain. but while the who “strongly encourages” all nations to follow the code, it’s voluntary.
a major canadian study of hundreds of foreign-trained physicians bluntly concludes: the “brain drain has obvious negative consequences” on low-income and middle-income countries.
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the issue of foreign-trained physicians ties into the larger challenge of the brain drain, which university of oxford economist paul collier spells out in his book, exodus: how migration is changing our world .
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overall, the brain drain from poorer countries causes collier to conclude the global case for compassion does not lean so much to canadian citizens ending up, in large part because of population growth , without a family physician
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