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Given that I'd earn more as a nurse in the US than as a doctor in the UK, around triple for a traveling nurse.. Hmm
Nah. I'm still too proud to do that, even if 5 years of med school looks like a sunk cost at times. Besides, I don't think just being a doctor is sufficient credentials to work as a nurse in most places, and I'm not going through nursing school unless it takes like 6 months. I suppose most doctors don't end up in queer situations where that even remotely looks like a good idea.
Indian/South/SE Asian nurses have been propping up the profession for a while, during COVID, countries were falling over themselves to attract as many as they could get. The only reason more don't emigrate, at least from India, is because they're not fluent enough in English, even if in practise I don't think that would be too much of a hindrance if they can grokk the basics.
Man, fuck UK nurses, I thought the ones in government hospitals in India who wouldn't life a finger because of the comfort of their protected government jobs were bad. They're often trained to do trivial tasks like perform cannulations, catheterizations and so on there, but from a combination of stupid NHS trust policies that demand recertification and their own laziness, refuse to do so even when they're capable. It's easy for me to take for granted that work like this is done by the nurses at decent private hospitals in India, as well as the States, and I don't look forward to the inevitable dozens of cannulations I'll have to do daily as a doctor in the UK. My back hurts just thinking about it.
Most of this grunt stuff is below the level of a nurse in the USA- some of it is literally CNA(~6 week cert) work.
I don't imagine that extends to cannulations and the like does it?
The US has an extensive system of lower grade nurses and medical technicians/therapists that do a lot of that kind of stuff.
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