BIAS AGAINST FOREIGN-BORN OR FOREIGN-TRAINED DOCTORS: EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE

’May we be blessed to live in interesting times’ states the ancient Chinese proverb. The next two years are going to be a white-knuckle ride for all of us involved in general practice and also medical education. The threats remain out there, as big and nasty as we feared - particularly the financial squeeze, the fragmentation of the National Health Service and the dogma of politicisation.

Yes, it will be hard for all in keeping standards maintained. The alternative translation of the proverb is ’May we be cursed to live in interesting times’, and some of that comes out in the literature. My hope is for improvements: my fear and expectation are for progressive chaos.

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