Hong Kong’s medical watchdog has torpedoed proposals to fully exempt foreign-trained doctors in the city from having to do an internship locally as a way of a solving a chronic staff shortage on public hospital wards.The government, a major doctors’ association and a patients’ group all expressed disappointment after the Medical Council rejected all four options floated at a meeting on Wednesday afternoon.The proposals were aimed at attracting more overseas doctors, to relieve the overburdened…
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