I read a National Geographic article just earlier this week about these doctors on India who trained poor people to practice health care in their villages - saying that it's more important for people to be healthy than for doctors to be making money.
Here's a (kinda long) quote from it
Doctors, he says, are not the solution for the world's poorest people. Even if they do not emigrate, doctors stay in the cities. In Malawi half of the country's doctors work in just one of four hospitals in major cities, although Malawi is about 85 percent rural. With a handful of exceptions, doctors in poor countries become doctors for the same reason most people all over the world do: to make a good living. If Malawi or India does succeed in recruiting a doctor for a health post in the countryside, chances are that a patient looking for him there will not find him. He will be in the capital, treating patients who can pay
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I read a National Geographic article just earlier this week about these doctors on India who trained poor people to practice health care in their villages - saying that it's more important for people to be healthy than for doctors to be making money.
Here's a (kinda long) quote from it
Doctors, he says, are not the solution for the world's poorest people. Even if they do not emigrate, doctors stay in the cities. In Malawi half of the country's doctors work in just one of four hospitals in major cities, although Malawi is about 85 percent rural. With a handful of exceptions, doctors in poor countries become doctors for the same reason most people all over the world do: to make a good living. If Malawi or India does succeed in recruiting a doctor for a health post in the countryside, chances are that a patient looking for him there will not find him. He will be in the capital, treating patients who can pay ( ... )
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