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...Similarly, results from the Department for Education and Skills published in 2006 also show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children in Britain have low levels of education, denoting a lack of progress since immigration. National exams taken at age 16—the General Certificate of Secondary Education—show that Pakistani and Bangladeshi children are well below the 40 percent mean of British children gaining 5 or more passing grades (C or higher in any subjects including English and Math), considered by the government to be a standard for passing high school. According to Professor Modood?...
...Pakistanis and Bangladeshis cannot claim lack of education prior to immigration as an excuse for their lack of progress either. Immigrants from the Caribbean arrived three generations ago, around the same time as the main influx of Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants, with over 70 percent lacking education. The number of Caribbean Britons lacking education is now less than 25 percent...
...That shortage has already arrived in Massachusetts. The MMS report revealed that 27 percent of medical directors had trouble recruiting family physicians, in comparison to only 7 percent who found it difficult to recruit specialists such as anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and radiologists. The lack of primary care physicians translates into longer waits to see a physician for patients: only 42 percent of patients in Massachusetts could be seen by a primary care physician within a week, a drop of 11 percent over the past two years. In one practice in Western Massachusetts, the next opening for a physical...
...federal government adopts a similar universal mandate, the situation in Massachusetts will have served as an informative preview of what is to come. In the United States, 47 million people currently lack health insurance, and their entrance into the world of the insured will place a huge burden on already overwhelmed primary care physicians. But even ignoring the entrance of uninsured patients into the health care system, the American Academy of Family Physicians predicts that the country will need 40,000 more family physicians by 2020 due to the aging population, a 40 percent increase over today?...
...Prestige also contributes to the high proportion of specialists. In one study, only 37 percent of those intending to go into family care ended up in family practice. Those who defected were more likely than those rejecting other specialties to quote a lack of prestige, anxiety over mastering a wide breadth of knowledge, and paradoxically, a low academic content as the reasons for their change in focus...