I may not be a great fan of Neil Quigley, the Chair of the Reserve Bank, since he's presided over the decline in reputation and status (for good reason) in that institution. However, as Vice Chancellor of Waikato University, he is on the right track in lobbying for a new medical school there.
The country needs to be shaken up and more monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies crushed and dismantled to unleash the socially beneficial effects of competition. Whether it's the big banks and their extortionate, gangland style protection fees that they are charging each time we try to buy something and do a deal, the mice-infested (at least in one case) supermarket shake-down of their customers, the building industry's dominance by a few big firms, or our too-big-to-fail universities problem, bring on new entrants and new players. So fast-track Waikato's Medical School and get the job done.
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
2 comments:
The last thing this country needs is another allopathic medical school. The outcomes for individuals health have been terrible overall. Focus on hygiene, right living and improving the nutritional value of the food supply. End medicine based upon the already disproven germ hypothesis, drugs that don’t cure but simply mask symptoms and cause other problems and so called medical products that have never been properly tested for safety against actual placebo.
Fully agree that New Zealanders are treated like chumps by 'big-Aussie' outfits. Could be a good reason for that which is rather self-evident.. Hopes that a third medical school will solve problems in our medical system are completely dumb. If lucky the new school will open its doors next year, and first newbie (useless) doctors will start to emerge when? 2032? What about nurses - what's the plan there? Why are we wasting scant resources on such boondoggles when technology will quickly outpace legacy approaches? How about we define a new category of primary-care medical professionals. People chosen for their care and empathy, trained for 3-years to work as an interface between patients and AI diagnostics? Quicker, better and far less chumpy!
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