Indian doctor duped into buying 'Aladdin's lamp' for $41,600
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article said:
Two men have been arrested in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping a doctor into buying an "Aladdin's lamp" that they promised would bring him wealth and health.
As part of the con, they even pretended to conjure up spirits from the lamp, in line with the tale from The Arabian Nights, Indian media report.
The men had reportedly wanted more than $200,000 for the lamp but settled for a down payment of $41,600.
A third, female, suspect is at large.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-547598...As part of the con, they even pretended to conjure up spirits from the lamp, in line with the tale from The Arabian Nights, Indian media report.
The men had reportedly wanted more than $200,000 for the lamp but settled for a down payment of $41,600.
A third, female, suspect is at large.
When the genie appeared from the lamp he told the doctor "I can't grant you any wishes for material things but I can give you a superpower. Maybe you'd fancy something like super speed, or maybe invisibility, or perhaps flight?"
The doctor replied "I'd like the power of hindsight please"
"Hindsight? That would be a rubbish superpower. Sounds like a waste of a wish."
"Well, I know that now" said the doc.
The doctor replied "I'd like the power of hindsight please"
"Hindsight? That would be a rubbish superpower. Sounds like a waste of a wish."
"Well, I know that now" said the doc.
As utterly ridiculous as this is, being intelligent is no guarantee that you won't be superstitious. Look how many clever people are religious.
I work with a woman who has an important role in our finance department where she does a good job. That doesn't stop her going to see a medium and really believing what they say.
I work with a woman who has an important role in our finance department where she does a good job. That doesn't stop her going to see a medium and really believing what they say.
It costs £220k to train a doctor in a U.K. medical school. Doctor training in this country is limited by the relatively set number of places in universities, which is about 7k places per year. Up to 10k doctors are imported annually - figures vary year to year but basically it would cost billions annually to train the numbers we import and that’s without factoring the cost of having to build dozens of new medical schools. Bear in mind that even as it is the U.K. is under doctored per head of the population compared to similarly sized European countries.
Edited by DeWar on Sunday 1st November 08:29
Piginapoke said:
I interpret the thread as more anti Indian than NHS bashing
Maybe we could bash the Indian health service? Two birds one stone.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Indi...
Bloody useless! They need to do more to attract qualified staff to rural areas, and tackle corruption in procurement.
doesthiswork said:
Troubleatmill said:
My immediate thought is - why does the NHS need to import Doctors?
That's your immediate thought? Very clever qualified bloke that looks great on paper turns out to be not very intelligent.
If you train home grown students you see them for years. If they do have some worrying aspects about their judgement - you will identify it before you let them loose on patients.
Edit. Somewhere either on this thread or in the article. - the Dr was applying to be an NHS doctor.
That reference how now vanished. . So my post looks a bit random.
Edited by Troubleatmill on Sunday 1st November 09:23
ChocolateFrog said:
I know you're taking the piss but yes that's exactly what they should do.
My dad made a great doctor (now retired) and he got nowhere near all A's at A level.
We could train another 10000 doctors a year or are you suggesting we don't have enough students that want to do and are capable?
Which will require 40 new medical schools to be created (there are 30 at the moment) and more than £2 billion extra annually in training alone. I don’t disagree in principle but this has to be paid for. My dad made a great doctor (now retired) and he got nowhere near all A's at A level.
We could train another 10000 doctors a year or are you suggesting we don't have enough students that want to do and are capable?
greygoose said:
whitesocks said:
Of course a topic that has nothing to do with the NHS, predictably descends into an NHS bashing thread 
Bizarre isn’t it, I wish it were different.....oh no wasted another one.
DeWar said:
ChocolateFrog said:
I know you're taking the piss but yes that's exactly what they should do.
My dad made a great doctor (now retired) and he got nowhere near all A's at A level.
We could train another 10000 doctors a year or are you suggesting we don't have enough students that want to do and are capable?
Which will require 40 new medical schools to be created (there are 30 at the moment) and more than £2 billion extra annually in training alone. I don’t disagree in principle but this has to be paid for. My dad made a great doctor (now retired) and he got nowhere near all A's at A level.
We could train another 10000 doctors a year or are you suggesting we don't have enough students that want to do and are capable?
Teddy Lop said:
whitesocks said:
Of course a topic that has nothing to do with the NHS, predictably descends into an NHS bashing thread
what's predictable about it? Seems quite bizarre to me! I mean the fact he was even a doctor is incidental no?That is no longer there.
Troubleatmill said:
doesthiswork said:
Troubleatmill said:
My immediate thought is - why does the NHS need to import Doctors?
That's your immediate thought? Very clever qualified bloke that looks great on paper turns out to be not very intelligent.
If you train home grown students you see them for years. If they do have some worrying aspects about their judgement - you will identify it before you let them loose on patients.
Edit. Somewhere either on this thread or in the article. - the Dr was applying to be an NHS doctor.
That reference how now vanished. . So my post looks a bit random.
Edited by Troubleatmill on Sunday 1st November 09:23
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