Like Chinese goods avoid MRCP/MRCS specialists

This is not to make fun of the Chinese/ British.
A lot of doctors from India after MBBS go to UK and come back in 3-5 years with a MRCP/ MRCS after their names, and start practicing as specialists.
May be 50 years back, they could have considered themselves as specialists as India had no proper post graduation training available at that time.
But now 99 percent of these doctors are absolutely bottom of the barrel stuff from government medical colleges of India who couldn't get through the tough MD/ MS entrances and took the easy way out.
These morons have no proper PG training, they just cleared 2 MBBS level MCQs of Medicine/ Surgery and 3 pre clinical subjects ( anatomy/ physiology/ biochemistry) and a juvenile practical examination ( the main focus of which is basically communication skill in English!!)
They are kicked out of NHS ( the most primitive of healthcare system in the Entire Europe) as they couldn't maintain that minimal level of knowledge and professional skills ( most NHS trust hospitals are like cleaner version of India's Primary health care centres with 10-20 medicines in total for everything)
I'm bringing it up now because 8 such MRCPs from India and Bangladesh were working in some small private clinics in Czechia for last 10 months.
They are all kicked out and deported yesterday.
And I've seen at least 50 prescriptions of such specialists in last 5-6 months from India.
Proper MD/DMs in India tried to raise their voice in past, but India being India NOTHING has been done in private sectors ( government hospitals got rid of these "specialists" long ago to avoid lawsuits) and corporate hospitals have become heaven for these "specialists" as they are basically cheap labour, who can bill like a normal MD/DM/DNB/FNB.
So next time you need to see a doctor, visit your humble local GP first ( that's how it works in developed country) if he/ she refers to you to someone, before seeing that specialist, please make sure of his credentials and avoid these MRCPs at all cost ( no matter what your non medical mama/ mami/ chacha/ chachi says)
It's your ( or someone you care for health) health, many mistakes are avoidable.
Don't get fooled by the "phorein" specialist...

Your friendly "phoreiner" doctor who is proud to have completed his entire medical education from India and eligible to practice anywhere in the world.

Yes, it has become a global joke. This breed of idiots will steal your papers, make absurd single case report and publish those jokes in whacky journals ( they themselves are the editors of the journals!!) and proudly present them during interviews.
I had to endure such painful interviews recently as WHO needs some field doctors.
One of these morons applied for a medical statistical analyst position who couldn't calculate mean and median from a bunch of well organized very small ( less than 100 participants) database!!
And being a special kind of asshole, I humiliated them in front of the entire panel.
These guys do not understand, WHO is not a giant corporate organization, we look for fearless thugs with some technical knowledge ( we will teach them all the tricks of epidemiology within couple of months) we need normal doctors who are connected with reality, not afraid of being chased by angry mob, who won`t hesitate to fight an attacker with a knife or shank or something.
Anyone appearing with a tie/ formal suit for an interview automatically irritates us as we don`t care about any of those things, during summer I go to HQ in shorts, flip-flops.
We do not work in air conditioned offices, we work in trenches FFS!!

VERY FEW NHS hospitals even have MRI machines.
A healthcare system is not usually measured by exotic treatment.
Honestly, I don't know about their ENT services, but ENT surgeons @ NHS can't do something as basic as a percutaneous tracheostomy ( they still prefer open tracheostomy for every patient)
I came across one patient recently with a bad coronary angio ( 90 percent proximal LAD with very poor health of distal circulation)
The poor man was stuck at Northern London, where those idiots did an intravenous lithotripsy ( as they thought the atheroma to have a significant calcified plaque), of course he died within next 12 hours in CCU, if you consider IVL an exotic treatment for coronary heart disease, sure...they do it all the time ( instead of normal thrombosuction and usual angioplasty, but it requires significant amount of training)
Yes, some teaching hospitals are good, but not even close to German/ Dutch Medical schools.
Even AIMS, PGI and certain medical schools in India are truly world class when it comes to medical education.
The antibiotic policy of NHS is really old and they simply hide their pneumonia deaths every single year ( told by a NHS veteran who left after 20 years)
But, this is not about NHS. I can make a separate thread on NHS comparing it to PHC ( you will be shocked to see the similarities even in photographs)
It's about doctors who can't maintain the NHS standard!!
And regarding the legendary NHS delay, do you know how many patients does a medicine resident see everyday?
It's usually less than 10 percent of what Indian residents see in a normal government medical college.
If you get tired after seeing 15 patients in a day ( and all you are doing is putting ticks and crosses in a form) no one really can save the system.
Years ago ( >10 years) BBC made some documentaries on NHS and explained why it's the absolute worst in EU, and it didn't improve one bit and got worse year after year.
St. George, possibly the biggest hospital in UK, it has a very good stroke unit.
But compared to something really world class like Cornell in NYC or Ludwig in Munich, it's really far behind.
India's NIMHANS is also a genuine world class centre for neurological diseases.

Very true. Everything you said is completely logical.
But getting a MRI of LS spine done from NHS referral is equally difficult mate ( they will delay it unless the backache matches their ancient 40 point criteria and no matter how serious the pain is, they will give some useless Ibuprofen for weeks, my mom in law faced exact similar problem there, I had to call up one of my friends there to get that freaking MRI and some Lyrica. Forget MRI, even getting a non contrast CT brain from NHS trust hospital is a tedious process ( but yes, of course it's easier compared to India)
But I would wholeheartedly agree with you about the completely corrupt/ non monitored but mostly efficient ( and very expensive) private health care system in India.

praktikování medicíny se v dnešní době stalo mečem s dvojitým ostřím.
A good relationship of trust is mandatory between a doctor and patient. If there's no mutual trust, bad outcome is guaranteed.
I would rather prefer a rude but efficient and honest doctor over a smooth talking pimp.
If you watch closely, most honest doctors are rather harsh with family members, but polite to the patient.

You want an honest answer? I will tell you why.
If you sit in a doctor's chamber for 7 days just to listen to the conversation going on, you will notice how much time is wasted on meaningless chit chat. If I ask someone about his present symptoms, if he starts from a viral fever 50 year ago, it sometimes gets to your nerve. Sure past medical history is important so is past treatment. But that shouldn't include name of doctors whom you're don't know ( where there chambers were, how good/ bad they were etc.etc.)
Given the number of patients an Indian doctors see everyday also play a major factor.
For me,I would like to use 80 percent of my time in examining the patient myself.
It's basically our lack of patience..which is often related to the load we are under.
Medicine IMHO is 50 percent knowledge ( continued medical education) 30 percent experience and 10 percent luck.
Some of us skip on that knowledge and related continued education part and try to make up for our knowledge with sweet talking etc.
As for me, if the patient can talk himself/ herself, try to minimise the conversation with the family about symptoms etc.
We are human too, we make mistakes.