Pauline Hanson announces personal medical decision

Pauline Hanson has announced that she refuses to go to foreign-trained doctors because she doesn’t trust them.

She rejected a proposal to remove barriers to foreign doctors working in Australia, saying she “will not go to a foreign doctor” and that they are “lowering the standard”.

The One Nation leader feels so strongly on the issue, she told Sky News’ Paul Murray that GPs should be paid more to avoid becoming specialists.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said foreign-trained doctors who get caught up in red tape are a ‘potential gold mine’ that could help solve the country’s GP shortage.

“Well, what bureaucracy is he talking about,” Mrs. Hanson asked.

“Another lowering of the standard that I think if you do that and let these foreign doctors here who don’t meet our standards.

“Well, then you’re going to play Russian roulette with human lives,” she said.

‘Personally I don’t go to a foreign doctor because I don’t trust it… system when I know that they have allowed them in this country and most of them fail the first test.’

Ms Hanson said: ‘They have to take the test at least a few times’, adding that ‘many of them can’t pass because they don’t speak English’.

“You can’t be a doctor in this country if you can’t communicate with the patient. It’s not good at all,” she said.

“If we let in those foreign doctors who don’t pass the test, they’ve already lowered the standard twice.”

The NSW government is urging the federal government to work together to remove what has been called a ‘barbed wire fence’ of bureaucracy surrounding foreign-trained doctors.

Mr Hazzard said the difficulties have forced hundreds of doctors to leave the industry and take up jobs as taxi drivers, while the shortage of GPs threatens to spark an ‘apocalypse’ in the healthcare system.

“This should set alarm bells ringing in the offices of the Federal Health Department and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners,” he said. Daily Telegram.

But Ms Hanson said the solution to the doctor’s shortage across Australia must come internally.

Pauline Hanson said the solution to the doctor shortage across Australia must come internally. Pictured is a stock photo of a female medical worker

“We need to look at ourselves,” she said. “Why don’t we have more Australians taking the position of doctors?”

She said: ‘The big problem is that GPs don’t get paid enough, aren’t paid enough for it’.

Ms Hanson added that GPs are instead moving to specialist areas “so they can earn a decent living from it”.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard (pictured) said foreign-trained doctors are a ‘potential gold mine’ that could help solve the country’s GP shortage

“We have to stop tapping doctors from other countries and bring them here to Australia because, you know, we have a world standard in (medicine)…

“The people (Australia) come over from abroad, we lower our standards,” she said.

Ms Hanson ended by saying that ‘we cannot lower our standards because who will suffer is the people’.