An alleged brain surgeon cannot figure out that a Jeep Cherokee won't fit through the pillars at Glasgow airport.

Doctors construct a car bomb. To cause maximum harm they include nails in the device. However the nail are placed under the explosive. If the device had detonated the nails would have been driven straight into the roadbed instead of being directed at the hapless victims.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to figure out the stupidity of this.

This is not a macabre attempt at humour.

I am not intending to be funny.

I am asking a serious question.

If this gang are products of Indian medical schools then just what kind of graduates are they producing?

Can we accept Indian medical qualifications at face value?

Should we be more selective about which medical schools' graduates we allow to practise medicine in Australia?

Is it possible that the graduates of some Indian medical schools are a bigger menace than terrorists?

I need to correct something.

Some of the mentally-retarded "doctors" who carried out the bombings went to "medical schools" in countries other than India. One went to medical school in Jordan.

Nonetheless the basic question remains.

Do we need to take a closer look at foreign medical schools before we allow their graduates to practise medicine in Australia?

Should we allow people who would not be allowed near an Australian medical school to practice on Australian patients?

Trouble is Stevenlmeyer, Australia's in a desperate situation. Our state and federal governments have seriously lacked any foresight in past decades and we are now desperately short on doctors.

For that matter we're also desperately short of tradesmen of all types - hence the 457 temporary visas.

I raised this problem with a leader of an opposition party back in 2000.

The present situation, I believe, is making most of us quite anxious, despite assurances that incoming doctors must pass a stringent exam to practise medicine in Australia. That appears to have failed - certainly with the Queensland butcher.

I don't see a solution in the short term. I guess it's "catch up time."

In the meantime, I would say: "buyer beware!"

I cannot comment on doctors but a young male Indian physiotherapist here to do some postgraduate training is considered to be so good by his patients that he could easily set up a full-time practice.
Is it possible that the variation in competency is just as great as it is here?

There is a good reason why so many Asian students study in Australia (aside from using our universities as visa factories). Simply put, even Australia's third-rate universites rank better than anything in Asia (with the exception of Japan, but they don't like foreigners much). It has everything to do with educational standards. So yes, we have a legitimate reason to be worried about this mass influx of foreign-trained doctors.

Both the State and Federal Governments have shirked their responsibilities for decades by importing foreign doctor en masse rather than educate and train young Australians. In the wake of the current crisis, why aren't the major parties scrambling to immediately address this issue?

Interestingly, only one politician has raised this issue since the terrorist attacks in the UK. A certain redhead, and it's not Julia Gillard.

Stop recruiting foreign doctors - Hanson

AUSTRALIA only has to source its doctors from overseas because the federal government has failed to provide enough medical places at universities, former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says. Ms Hanson's comments came as police continued to question an Indian doctor, Mohammed Haneef, in connection with the foiled UK terror plots.

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Ms Hanson, who is seeking a Senate seat at this year's election, said today she was fed up with the proliferation of foreign doctors in Australia.

"I have people that come to me and say, 'I'm sick of going to a doctor and they cannot understand the English language and they don't know what I'm talking about','' she told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

"It's an absolute disgrace on our parliamentarians that they have allowed it to get to this state.

"My parents, grandparents and I have not put my hard-working tax dollars into this country to allow for someone else to get the benefits from it.''

Ms Hanson said the government had not provided enough subsidised university places for medical students as it was cheaper to lure foreign medical students who paid full fees for their degrees.

"It's cheaper for the government than training our own,'' she said.

"Those places are for our kids, first and foremost, not everyone else.''

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22021935-5006786,00.html