On 9/6/06, Gerhard Fiedler <lists@connectionbrazil.com> wrote:
> Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
> >>> Doctors and lawyers are professions that are heavily "nationalized"
> >
> > surely this is largely because it is rather hard to see the patient or
> > customer from the other side of the world. Both professions rather rely on
> > the prime supplier of the service being rather immediate to the required
> > service.
>
> Which doesn't really explain the entry hurdles if a physician wants to move
> to a different country. One could claim that this is about quality control,
> but we all know what exams do to quality... :)
>

I tend to believe that an important reasons for the hurdles is related to the
fact that in many developed countries the politicians are either lawyers
or medical doctors... In China, many leaders are engineers by training...
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