Comment by pyman
10 days ago
Oh that's interesting. I wouldn't expect a surgeon with 20 years experience to show up at a public hospital. I do like the idea though, it gives new doctors a chance to learn from them. But I'm not sure what the experienced doctor gets out of it, to be honest.
The private doctors mostly (not always) do the routine stuff. The advantage being you don't have to wait. When things get tricky/complicated you are often better going the NHS route as the doctors there have so much more throughput they have more experience with complex/unusual cases.
It's pretty much the other way around here. For a private hospital, getting someone with experience from the NHS is to a large extent a prestige thing, and you'll find that the practioners profiles on private provider websites often highlights their NHS background.
So what they get out of it is at least to some extent that it is expected many places as a means to getting job offers from private providers.