Page 1 of 1: In the days after Plab part 2... an email to parents!

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

Recieved a nice forward... about a son describing his situation to parents after PLAB part 2 ... read on and enjoy!

hi mom and dad,
I hope you are well there and I am also well (in this hell).
I am writting you after a long time as I was very busy in my work (applying for clinical attachments).
You should not worry about me (as I am already worried about myself).
The place where I am putting up is just like india (Eastham) and I feel as if I have reached in some other corner of India.
I have got a one room set (shared by 6 people) and its very comfortable (for cockroaches and mosquitoes).
There are lot of Asians in this area (as Britishers do not like to come here) and most are doctors like me (plabbers, or one can say beggers).

Mamma, I have changed a lot here and you will not believe me, that I daily go to a temple and a gurudwara (to have my lunch and dinner).
You used to worry that I will be having non-veg stuff all the time, but I have become a pure vegetarian here (as non-veg is not served in temples)
Dad, you used to worry that I will be drinking a lot there, but let me tell you that I have not touched liquor and even stopped taking tea (as I cant
afford this luxury).

You were teasing me that I will be running after girls there but here I am not running after females (as most of the time i am sending e-mails)
I have really travelled a lot of places now and its difficult to remember each place (as i tried so many places for an attachment).
I have visited so many hospitals and I am not able to decide where to apply ( as a psychatric patient and not as a doctor).
You will be surprised again that I do not watch any TV (as everyday I am changing my CV)
You used to say that I keep on sitting at home and just eating all the time, so its for your information that I do jogging 5-10 miles daily (as I cant spend money on buses and taxi)
and mamma, your this mottu son has lost 10 kgs of his weight and become much smarter and you will not be able to recognize me that I am the same person (as I also donot recognize myself)

I am thinking of doing a CA before starting my job (clinical attachment and not chartered accountant)
I will be paying them a handsome salary during this CA (approx.100 pounds to get it and 300 pounds for stay per month)
You will be glad to know that I am thinking of some side business also in financial sector, like lending money,and how to generate money(borrowed money from freinds, under debt for PLAB -ii coaching).

I really miss you so much and sometimes I think of coming back to you leaving all these luxuries behind (which I have to, if I cant manage 500 pounds for visa extension)
I asked you to get your passport ready, but I think that you should, as here the weather is not conducive for the elderly.
Mamma, I request you that you should also go to gurudwara daily and make some donations(as you dnt know that your son is surviving on the mercy of these temples)
Rest everything is fine.
I will write to you again as I am about to finish my time of using the computer in the library.

Your son,
Dr.PLAB Parttwo

SShah · Credits: 382 My Scrapbook

This is the story of almost all PLABERS, i think we should seriously think about going back to India.

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

Wondering what's new in Eastham?

maaya · Credits: 504 My Scrapbook

so what is new?

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

While the jobless doctors in UK try to convince their parents/friends/relatives... that their decision to come to UK was right .... this is what is published in India... The Time Of India...

UK’s NRI docs queue for grub
New Indian medics are unemployed, poor, discriminated against: Survey
By Rashmee Roshan Lall/TNN

London: The reality of life in Britain for a newly qualified Indian doctor means ignominiously queuing for free meals in Hindu temples and sleeping three to a room in squalid lodgings. This is what a survey by Britain’s lead medical body — the General Medical Council (GMC) — states.

Thousands of Indian and other foreign doctors are forced to live on the breadline because they’re lured from their home countries with promises of work, only to remain unemployed, poor and discriminated against a year after expensively gaining UK visas and pass grades in a key medical exam.

The survey comes nearly a year after the authoritative British Medical Journal (BMJ) unprecedentedly published data, case studies and statistics to warn overseas doctors — particularly from India — to eschew Britain because they were at risk of remaining out of work at least for months on end.

The GMC survey, which renews the warning, offers data to prove that less than half of those who passed Britain’s medical qualifications test, PLAB — Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board — in summer 2004 found work within six months. The survey found that a quarter of those who passed PLAB remained down and out a year later. The survey warned that the situation was likely to worsen in 2006 with nearly 7,000 non-European doctors rushing to pass the PLAB in 2005. But the GMC refused to take responsibility, saying it had no control over the numbers applying for too few posts.

Last February, the BMJ “warning to all junior overseas doctors” carried well-chosen words of advice from the doughty Peter Trewby, chair of the Royal College of Physicians’ working group on international medical graduates (IMGs), with the stark facts about the life an Indian doctor could expect in the UK. He said it was shocking that the NHS “remarkably, has no system for matching IMGs to vacancies”.

Senior British Indian doctors said the UK’s policy of declaring healthcare a “skills shortage occupation” gave Indian doctors both the licence and hopes of securing jobs in Britain with the result that “over two-thirds of doctors registering to practice in the UK in 2003 were from overseas — the vast majority from non-European countries”.

drkinjalmashru · Credits: 318 My Scrapbook

this is truly the plight of all plabbers...i have been lucky to b wiht relatives n happily living wiith them and eating good food...but the emotional trauma cannot b put to words....makes me wonder why on earth did i choose to b a doctor...if only i was poor in studies or wish something wouldve gone wrong with my cet marksheet...only wishful thinking left now...

MunishLapsia · Credits: 9000 My Scrapbook

An estimated 5,000 Indian doctors have returned home from the UK since April last year when changes in immigration rules were effected, a spokesman of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin said on Friday.

"There are still more than 10,000 doctors affected here," Raman Lakshman told PTI.

He said according to some calculations there were 40,000 junior Indian doctors in Britain. Of them 10,000 have got staff grade positions.

"During 2004-05 alone, about 10,000 doctors came from India. Since the new immigration rules were announced in 2006, according to rough estimate 5,000 doctors might have gone back," he said

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