Issam Abuanza, 37, who worked in Britain for seven years before going to Syria, complained that foreign medics had to abandon their dignity to find a hospital posting. The Palestinian-born doctor, who is married with two young children, made the rant shortly before he arrived here in 2006. He told overseas graduates sitting tests on their English language and clinical skills that they needed anti-psychotic drugs to work in the NHS. In his comments in April 2006 on a bulletin board he added that getting a job was difficult because ‘very now and then you are begging the human resources or the consultant to give you a locum position’. Despite his outburst, Abuanza was able to secure a position at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Rhyl, North Wales, where he worked between May 2007 and July 2009. ...read
NHS treated me like a beggar, says doctor who became a jihadi: Extremist ranted about the NHS and 'abandoning his dignity' shortly before getting a job at a hospital