The German Healthcare System needs international experts

Last activity 08 April 2014 by beppi

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MedstepMember08 April 2014 08:16:01

Almost three quarters of the hospitals are facing problems in staffing their vacancies with medical specialists (radiologists, gynecologists )
Some numbers:
- 35 994 physicians will be missing in the next 5 years and 71 625 in the next 10 years.
- 63,4 % are female physicians at the moment, they only work 72% of the time of male physicians.
- 20 000 senior physicians and chief physicians will leave for retirement until 2020.
Doctors and medical staff are welcomed in Germany.

beppiGermany - Singapore Expert08 April 2014 09:44:41

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I don't know what your purpose is of posting this, but here an opposing view (from my wife who works in the medical field):
Germany has a bloated and buerocratically overburdened health sector, which is in dire need of streamlining and slimming to bring down the ever increasing cost of health care.
Germany has more medical staff and more clinics than almost anywhere else, without much to show for it: The Netherlands achieve a better overall health ranking with exactly half the number of hospital beds per head of population!
While foreign employees are needed to fill some niches (e.g. nurses) and because they work for less money, the overall number of employees in the field is overdue for a reduction. There is also a big political push to reduce the number of hospitals and other cost factors (e.g. the exaggerated income of many doctors).
If you want to work in the medical field, go to the third world, where you're really needed!

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