Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 November 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Delays in Accessing Scoliosis Treatment and Surgery: Discussion
Mr. Connor Green:
To add to that, the President wrote an excellent article about academic inflation earlier in the year and it all goes around that academic promotion of individual institutions. When the Senator talks about the standard of care in Ireland and supporting that, I am delighted to hear him say it, but we need to continue to be able to keep ourselves at that standard of care and, therefore, we have to be able to track people back to this country and encourage people to go away and train. Genuinely, there will always be talk about remuneration for work and salaries, and we are never going to get away from that. However, as medical professionals, we find that the hardest thing is coming to do our job and not being able to do it. I would much rather be sitting in the lab right now, doing research with the additional time that I have, trying to advance care rather than trying to promote my specialty. If we are given the time to research, educate and train, we will have happy physicians who want to work. It is not that hard to keep us happy.
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