A country can survive many arguments. It cannot afford to get medicine wrong. Uganda is producing more doctors while hospitals continue to need them. Yet young doctors are still caught in battles over internship, pay, working conditions and what happens after training. That is not an internal quarrel within the profession. It concerns every Ugandan, because every family will eventually depend on a doctor. On this week’s #JSCConversations, I sit down with Dr Frank Rubabinda Asiimwe, President of the Uganda Medical Association, Consultant Urologist and Transplant Surgeon. We will confront the intern doctors’ crisis, doctors’ pay, brain drain, medical negligence, the duties doctors owe patients, the obligations the State owes doctors, and the larger question beneath all of it: Can Uganda build a health system worthy of the people who depend on it? THE DOCTOR, THE INTERN AND THE STATE. Join us.