As Mr Ahamed explains, its staff treat their unpopularity in some parts of the world "almost as a badge of honour, seeing themselves as economic doctors willing to prescribe harsh but necessary medicine".
AGGRESSIVE IGNORANCE Brazil's troubles demonstrate that the world's economic doctors really don't know what they are doing.
Hiking taxes hurts economic growth, but like physicians who once bled their patients, the IMF's economic doctors regularly prescribe ever-heavier exactions.
A number of people I respect and admire in the technology and investment fields think that the legislation is just what the economic doctor ordered, in at least one vital way.
The Daily Telegraph columnist Roger Bootle, of Capital Economics, and the Labour donor John Mills recently produced a "work in progress" pamphlet which argues that the kind of devaluation that might ensue from Brexit would be just what the economic doctor ordered anyway, whatever one's position on the Brexit debate.
Alongside the new restaurants that are opening in the capital, as a result of Raúl Castro's partial easing of economic restrictions, doctors are now less shy about selling their services.
Under the organizational pressure emphasizing service efficiency and economic interests, doctors are incapable of diagnosing and treating by professional knowledge alone, and their clinical autonomy has been eroded.
The country's macro-economic situation has had a great influence in shaping dual practice: "Due to the country's economic crisis, doctors need to find other jobs to survive" (PM #3, College of Physicians).
The survey consisted of six scales, including concerns for health and responsibility, family and social support, a psychological tendency toward hostility, concerns over economic status, doctor support, and the sense of being discriminated against.
When the duration of the illness-related absence from work was ≤3 days, the intervention-mediated positive changes in concerns over economic status, doctor support, and the sense of being discriminated against were larger compared with patients who were absent from work for ≥11 days (β = -0.31, –0.290, –0.405; p < 0.05; 0: ≤3 days, 1: 4–10 days, 2: ≥11 day).
Our indicator of economic strain, namely doctors' worries about their private finances, was a significant predictor of whether doctors wanted to migrate, controlling for job satisfaction.
