Medical Career in Ireland

It's completely outrageous, how this country touts itself as an economic miracle, modern now, and some terrible contradictions remain.

There are LOTS of doctors with brown skin who have worked here for ages, are good doctors, but will never get any career progressions, ie never make consultant. LMM was asked not long ago, had he seen any consultants who were not Irish? - there are none. Downright racist, isolationist, yet no-one tells them, no-one confronts it - and the foreign docs prop up the system for years, unable to question it, as their contracts might not be renewed. This is no open, modern system.

And I thought Australia makes it tough, making them work in the outback, or in other terrible places for years, before recognising their qualifications! At least they do, eventually.

What kind of country makes doctors reapply for their jobs EVERY 6 MONTHS? Not consultants of course, but the big numbers who get the worst shifts, bear the brunt of patient loads in every specialty, across the country. These are professional folks, with years of study and experience behind them, being made to act like temps. Oh and could you please do a spelling test for us. That last part was a joke.

Across the hall from us is an Indian woman who's just been here for 2 years, working, waiting until she could bring her girls, 11 and 13, and her husband over. That's how much a better life means to them.

And in the hospital is a senior doc who'd be arriving at parties in India in the limo, earning 6 times as much as he does here, but he's got an Irish wife, so stays bogged in the system, without a proper career progression for his expertise.

Poor buggers.