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you mention it in it has a lot to she acts like
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i started with a chair button down or or an
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one on the hospital that they're so out of a shortage or or what how it's done so a
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friend of mine who is a family physician a general practitioner in the centre of birmingham area
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last two of his pardons to retire at no it's in a highly deprived area and
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he couldn't recruit any other g. p. b. didn't want to come work that
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so you went at the united states and you recruited to physician
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assistants and came back this was in the late nineties
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and he rang me and he said you need to come down and see these people you need to meet
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them and you need to speak with them so i shouted them for today and my head was
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completely filled with admiration for them and i kept thinking why are we not doing this
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so i decided to do it um i spoke with some colleagues
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and we took a risk and we developed the program and once the
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programs developed we were then having to influence government by saying what
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are we gonna do these people when they come out to the university if we wait for government to do it it won't happen
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it just won't happen someone has to take the risk to do what what's the biggest obstacle
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you had in face wow um i i think the biggest obstacle was my callings
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medical doctor yeah the biggest the biggest obstacle is ourselves they
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didn't want to give up their how because well
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the junior doctors file these are people who are gonna steal our
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clinical placements these adopt these uh people are gonna steal our jobs
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but the masses very easy the population growth means there's space
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for everyone and actually there's a there's a need
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for more we can from from starting medical school to
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becoming a consultant you're looking at fourteen fifteen years
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it's impossible the masses impossible but slowly but surely i'm calling so combined
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what is your last question your observation as their device agree
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on this last well i'm hoping i'm hope then
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but it's how you you do know a little bit calmer situation and is it
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a luxury problem that we are not all ready more it demands a
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i i i i i don't think that i don't think we should worry
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about all of that i think that we need to except there is
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i need to change the need to do something different there's a need to
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to to investigate other rules that are similar jessica's madsen
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that's it within the medical family that's really important
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in the u. k. we're just about to have regulation of
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the physician associates and that's what the general medical council
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there's been along the base about should it be the health care professions can so should we set
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up something different but they're part of the medical family so they're going to be registered
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i'm currently we have the faculty of physician associates and
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that's it's within the royal college of physicians
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thank you very much looking at my watch i'd say you're still
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here you'll be here yeah online chieftain so please if you
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have any questions and this to make it knows about colour