In the UK…
After I returned from a short four-day trip to the UK in March 2015 I wrote a blog post (see “Consequences”) lamenting the fact that as I no longer have a “licence to practise” medicine in the UK (although I am still a registered doctor) I was unable to purchase a few prescription medications to bring here with me that are not available in Ethiopia. Basically any registered UK doctor working overseas is unable to get the appraisals and revalidation done that’s demanded by the General Medical Council (GMC) to have their “licence to practise” in the UK renewed. The GMC told me to surrender mine in May 2014. Without it I cannot see or treat patients in the UK.
