V.Q.E the tale of an Indian physician in the United Kingdom of the 1980's
"Was Great Britain of the 1980's a welcoming place for a young man hailing from its former colony? How did the National Health Service exploit the vulnerable physicians from a newly independent and struggling India to fulfill its needs? What were the flaming hoops that a foreign physician had to jum...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Cresskill, NJ?] :
Vivek Gumaste,
2018.
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| Summary: | "Was Great Britain of the 1980's a welcoming place for a young man hailing from its former colony? How did the National Health Service exploit the vulnerable physicians from a newly independent and struggling India to fulfill its needs? What were the flaming hoops that a foreign physician had to jump through to further his professional career in the UK en route to a final destination in the United States? Read about all this in a gripping, event filled narrative- VQE- an acronym for the dreaded Visa Qualifying Exam, a grueling 2-day test that all foreign physicians had to pass to practice medicine in the United States. This dazzlingly original book does not subscribe to any set genre. It is a unique chronicle that weaves the current events of those times with the memoir of a young foreign physician in an alien land to produce a piece of work that is informative, touching at times and entertaining in parts. It captures the despair, the hopes, trepidations and travails of this young man from a financially indigent India of the 1980's as he charts his way through the land of his colonial masters and the innumerable challenges of this tumultuous period of his life: professional setbacks in the form of exam failures, joblessness as he moves from one part of Britain to another changing cities sometimes every two weeks in search of work; a cataplexic agoraphobia as he tries to come to terms with racism on the streets. Meanwhile in the background a host of remarkable events are being played out- Lady Diana's wedding, inter-racial riots and the British-Argentina war over the Falkland Islands. This book will be an interesting and compelling read for everyone in general and physicians in particular. " -- |
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| Physical Description: | 224 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781644679784 1644679787 |
