MOH is nuts. Welcome to Bolehland.
I am not going to be eloquent in this post. Forgive me for being biased due to my chosen course in uni.But damn, was I appalled when I came across this piece of news. This was what grated greeted my eyes when I logged on to MMR:
It may not seem like much at first glance. Then the magnitude of the situation came into focus. What frustrated me was the fact that the MOH had just doubled the starting salary of medical specialists...to....wait for it....LURE them back!! What about recent medical graduates? The poor, overworked interns and MOs..
That coupled with the fact that Bolehland's Health Minister, Dr Chua Soi Lek was once a medical practitioner. He, of all people, does not seem to understand the plight of his (former) fellow practitioners. Perhaps he was wise enough to enter politics instead.
This was confirmed in a report by the Star:
"The Chinese have 5,000 years of history". That's your main reason for implementing this? Pathethic is an understatement.
How did it come to this? First, they say we need more qualified medical practitioners. Now, they are encouraged allowed to go to China to study for a up to five years. Who needs doctors you say? Lets just turn them into sinsehs instead.
I have absolutely nothing against traditional medicine. I'm personally interested in acupuncture and may even take it up to complement my practise. But you see, Complementary Medicine should stay complementary. Not alternative, as what this situation implies. This bowel motion by the cabinet isn't helping much either.
But "its about the job, not the pay", you say. I'm sorry to ruin your ideals. Medicine is one of those careers where you truly earn your pay. It does not help that doctors working under the government are mostly overworked and underpaid. Just getting into the course is hard enough. I haven't even begun to mention the high tuition fees and long study hours. To add salt to the wound, any tom, dick and harry can take a course in China and earn more than a medical specialist with more than ten years of experience under his/her belt.
There you go, another masterpiece courtesy of Bolehland's administration. So that's what we pay them for.
5 comments:
If doctors are money-oriented, they are no good doctors :P They should go study business and start earning a fortune like Donald Trump!
If doctors are patient-oriented, only then, they are excellent doctors.
Its not as simple as that, my young padwan. My choice in becoming a doctor was never financially oriented in the first place. Doctors are people too, so any perceived or real injustice to their fellow colleagues will result in protests. Most doctors I know are already patient oriented. It is implemented in us since first year. Anyway, happy doctors make excellent doctors.
chinese medicine rots because it believed that it was the best. western medicine succeed because they were able to open up and discuss professionally among themselves to develop the optimal treatment. While more and more countries are seeking to recognise the good of chinese medicine, you use of the word complementary is somewhat egoistic if not degrading towards chinese medicine.
Most medical students do not know why they are doing medicine except that they got the grade.
How can 'complementary' be degrading towards chinese medicine? Here's the definition of complementary:
1 : relating to or constituting one of a pair of contrasting colors that produce a neutral color when combined in suitable proportions
2 : serving to fill out or complete
3 : mutually supplying each other's lack
While they are seeking out the good of chinese medicine, they are not overhauling their current system, as what this motion implies.
But you have a point about medical students there. But there are so many other things you can do with a good grade. It's just asian mentality working there.
that's boleh-land for u.... i have a feeling you wont be here after you grad....
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