The middle class mantra of becoming a doctor as a means to a better life, or a tolerable life is no longer supported by facts. Unless gullible and shortsighted parents stop pushing their offspring into medical schools based on old equations of supply and demand, the country will continue to produce more and more jobless doctors. While glib suggestions of serving Pakistan’s poor (which are indeed lacking in even the most basic healthcare) may sound comforting, they are unlikely to untie the knots in the system which imagines trained doctors serving them without being paid a wage on which they can survive. There are many things Pakistan needs, more doctors is simply not one of them.
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