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Submitted by Richard, Jul 11, 2007 20:34

I was laid off from my Silicon Valley engineering job in favor of H1-B workers more than 5 years ago. That was in the middle of the tech wreck. There were tons of unemployed engineers roaming the streets of Silicon Valley, and major tech firms were complaining about the shortage of engineers and how they needed to boost the H1-B visa limits to more than 6 times the usual number to fill all their engineering jobs. As I wrote to a magazine, "There (was) no shortage of American engineers, just a shortage of American engineering companies willing to pay a fair wage to American engineers".

So, it may well be that medicine in the U.K. is no longer an attractive middle class career, but I think its more that the British Treasury can get possibly adequate doctors at basement bin prices. And we all know that you get what you pay for!

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