Monday, January 07, 2013

The Joys of Multiculturalism!

The German healthcare system is plagued, so to speak, by a new problem: a growing dearth of doctors who can speak German well enough to do their jobs effectively. The solution is obvious: German schools must begin teaching their students Urdu, Farsi, Arabic, Malay, and Tagalog so that they can more efficiently explain their symptoms to hospital personnel.

Many thanks to JLH for the translation from Quotenqueen:

The Joys of Multiculturalism!

Even our highly qualified immigrants cannot speak any German. “It is simply about a lack of competence in German on the part of medical doctors,” which, in the opinion of the president of the Berlin Chamber of Physicians, is becoming a serious problem in health care. Complaints are multiplying from patients who can no longer communicate with their doctor, said Chamber President Günther Jonitz on Monday, speaking with German Radio on Culture. “And head doctors report that they can by now only converse in German with one-third of their staff.” Oh, what the heck! Veterinarians and pediatricians can’t talk with their patients either.

Besides, we shouldn’t be so racist and demand that immigrants master the country’s language. After all, it’s hard.

Der Spiegel writes:

No, it is not technical jargon that separates many doctors from their patients. It is simply about a lack of competence in German on the part of medical doctors, which, in the opinion of the president of the Berlin Chamber of Physicians, is becoming a serious problem in health care. Complaints are multiplying from patients who can no longer communicate with their doctor, said Chamber President Günther Jonitz on Monday, speaking with German Radio on Culture. And head doctors report that they can by now only converse in German with one-third of their staff. “The risks are increasing,” warned the president of the Berlin Chamber of Physicians.

Because there is a shortage of doctors, more and more physicians from Eastern Europe, Greece, and even Arab countries are practicing in Germany — and frequently without decent language skills. According to previous statements of the Organization of Hospital Directors, the proportion of foreign assistant doctors, especially in smaller clinics, can be more than 50%.

“Really Lousy Healthcare Policy”

Jonitz, the President of the Berlin Chamber of Physicians, sees economizing in healthcare as the cause of this development. Thus [he says] a “really lousy healthcare policy” puts too much emphasis on numbers and economic yield and forgets the human beings in the system. But German doctors and nurses will not stand for that anymore: “Whoever can, leaves, goes to other countries and works there, where it is possible to be regarded as a doctor or nurse — Switzerland, Scandinavia, England, Holland — and these vacancies are filled by doctors from countries where it is much worse.”

The government and the healthcare politicians, on the contrary, see it as the duty of the medical organizations and clinics to arrange for better integration of immigrant doctors. At one time, the SPD politician Karl Lauterbach said that instead of being incorporated, foreign doctors were only used as stopgaps.

Clearly, we are to blame that immigrants do not adapt to the majority society of their adopted country, when they are unselfishly offering us their services. Other countries are not so stupid. But we are all for it. Ah, multiculturalism is so great!

10 comments:

Ex-Dissident said...

Heh,

As someone born in the old Soviet Union, I shed no tears for Germans being forced to speak a different language. After all, if they were more successful in the 1940's, I would have been forced to learn to speak German. Of course, I would prefer them having to speak either English or Russian rather than Urdu or Arabic.

Red Rose said...

Thanks to multiculturalism the whole world is on a fast downward slide into a third-world existence.

Will a misdiagnosed patient be able to sue a doctor because neither of them could understand each other?

Civilization is going backwards.

Columnist said...

A solid knowledge of Arabic and Urdu, and especially Turkish would be very useful to Germans, and to Dutch people as well.

Anonymous said...

Lets cut to the chase. If we want countries that function properly,
the unassimilable immigrants need to be cleansed from the system and given
one-way tickets back to their Fourth-
World paradises. That means if you can't speak the host language, if your religion/ideology is destructve,
if you are a criminal, a freeloader
or a terrorist, you need to relocate.
Forcibly. There is NO OTHER WAY.

Anonymous said...

Hello Ex-Dissident,
have you forgotten the tale of the crocodile?
You feed it and hope to be safe. But the crocodile will eat you too, just a little bit later.

Anonymous said...

Anon of 8:40 , that analogy fits
perfectly on the attitude of leftards
to Islam. So we still need to shoot the croc ?

Anonymous said...

Exactly the same situation in Britain. No doubt the same thing is happening in the rest of the West. We need all these foreign doctors to treat the foreigners in our midst. This has got to be coordinated.

Anonymous said...

Here in Britain there was a bit of rumpus recently when it was discovered that three out of four dodgy doctors was foreign born and trained. I am not sure about the other 25%, they could have been British born but also foreign.

It then emerged that we have 24,000 doctors who were trained in India.
My question is, with so many poor and starving in India, why aren't they needed there? Or could it just be that the Indians don't really care whether their poor and starving live or die?

My compatriot has put his finger on it of course, in the days way back in the 1950s and 1960s before mass immigration would we have needed so many foreign doctors. I know that Enoch Powell when minister of health did encourage Indian doctors to come here; but by 1968 he had changed his mind and decided we could manage without them.

And yes, the first world is descending into the third but what are we going to do about it as long as our leaders refuse to acknowledge the fact and chastise us for trying to point it out?

Watching Russia Today and the Gerard Depardieu business, I have just discovered that Russia takes in more immigrants than any country bar the United States. We know that muslims are still flooding in there from the former Soviet Central Asian Republics but I would be very interested to know what the criteria are for immigration into Russia are. I don't think that Russia has any intention of ending up in the some boat as the US or most West European countries.

Anonymous said...

Curse our feeble racist mother-tongues, let us all learn Arabic fast!

Anonymous said...

Hello Anonymous from 11:37 AM,
what I meant was that now Ex-Dissident rejoices over the germans misfortune but when the germans are gone he will be the next one on the list of the muslims.

Fight together (and have a chance of winning) or be divided and die. the choice is yours.

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