Overseas doctors and the UK's National Health Service

摘要

"Doctor Evil" was just one of a barrage of similar headlines that appeared in tabloid newspapers following last month's failed terrorist attacks in the UK. As The Lancet went to press, six people with links to the National Health Service (NHS) were under arrest forthe attempted bombings That most of the suspects are doctors has been the subject of much discussion in the media Sadly, there will always be a small number of doctors that try to, or do, cause harm The danger now is that the actions of a few will be used as an excuse to discriminate against the many overseas doctors who currently work, or want to work, in the NHS, since those involved in the attempted attack originally came to the UK from India and the Middle East