Re: ‘City seeks family docs,’ June 30 Gazette:
It might shock a lot of people, but we’ve got hundreds of potential young doctors willing to serve us if we’d be smart enough to first serve them.
Like fools building expensive houses without roofs, we’ve been creating brilliant high school graduates who haven’t got a hope in hell of ever becoming doctors! They simply can’t afford the vey high cost of getting a medical degree. And they also can’t afford the costs of being interns too! By the time they become doctors, they’ll have had to spend seven years of their lives in school. Is that awful price encouraging?
Our high school education system is like a house without a roof. It doesn’t get completed! Oh sure, the ‘foundations’ are there, the ‘walls’ are there, and so are the ‘floors.’ But most of the instructions for the constructions of brilliant young minds will soon be shamefully wasted unless we finally get smart enough to also provide the all important ‘roof’ to complete the education of our most brilliant high school graduates.
They could be our supply of doctors for many years to come, if only we’d be smart enough to make use of them by educating them to, in turn, help us. Is it such an awful risk to pay for their medical training? Since taxpayers pay doctors, could we not easily get our money invested in medical degrees?
Even our most brilliant Alberta students may now get only 75 per cent of the education they need to possibly become doctors if they wish to. They may go to school for 12 years (or more), for free and at taxpayers’ expense to get a high school diploma, but unfortunately for all of us, that’s it! It’s game over! They can’t get their ‘roofs’ now too! They can’t get free financial help for the next four years of education at a university to perhaps become doctors! That cost for the final 25 per cent of their needed education is prohibitive if not totally impossible for far too many of our most brilliant high school graduates who could become doctors if only we’d be wise enough to create our supply of them.
No ‘roofs,’ no docs! What an awful, shameful waste!
Richard G. Nobert, Morinville
