Worrying.

I am, to put it mildly, rather concerned.

It seems that places in Medical School are in short supply because too many unqualified brown-skinned people are being given a free pass.

(Note to self: only consult brown-skinned doctor if they qualified outside New Zealand.)

Rather than noting this absurdity and cut down on those free passes, thereby increasing the quality of entrants to second-year medical courses, the school-teacher types have come up with a plan that involves decreasing qualifying standards overall and then introducing a lucky draw for places.

This, of course, means there is a very good chance the best doctors will never be doctors while you and I will have no choice but to deal with the half-wit (literally) who got in in his/her place.

I see in the story Former Otago Medical School dean Peter Crampton states that the problem he sees is that currently to enter second year Medical School on merit (i.e. if you are white or East Asian) people need to be geniuses.

Mr Crampton; I WANT my doctor to be a genius!