Wednesday, August 15, 2007 @7:03 PM
kindof inspired to write an entry today. i was working in the clinic in the afternoon when a postman entered with a registered mail. initially we thought it was a fine for our doc (cos sometimes he speeds).. but it turned out to be a letter from SMA! (singapore medical assiociation). okay. to receive a letter from SMA out of a sudden is not exactly a thing to be happy about. and true enough, it was regarding a complain from one of our patients. apparently he is rather unhappy and unsatisfied with our doc, claiming that he wasn't professional and stuff. i shall not go into the details of what he wrote in the letter but seriously, those accusations were nonsense and they dont make sense at all. obviously i am going to stand on the doctor's side cos i think the patient is purely being ridiculous. the letter was so exaggerating! i am sure doc is not going to get into any trouble cos i believe that SMA is not blind and they will know whats true and whats not.
while i was reading the letter (doc passed it to us to read), he asked "so you sure you still want to be a doctor?" argh. i have to admit this incident is quite a shock for me. never did i knew that singaporeans can be so ridiculous and unreasonable. indeed, it is difficult to be a doctor and i swear it is much harder to be one in singapore. the younger generation that had higher levels of education are the ones that are demanding more from the healthcare workers. they read something from somewhere and they think they are very knowledgeable, attempting to challenge the doctors/nurses in their advices and diagnosis. HELLO?!?! obviously doctors dont study so many years for nothing right? i think we all need to show more respect for others (i am not only referring to doctors, i think we should respect others for their professionalism)
okay i think my doc deserves better patients and definitely more respect from them. i hope he is feeling alright now. it can be quite sad when your efforts are not appreciated and people turn their backs against you suddenly.
while there are some doctors that are respectable, there are some that i feel are not putting enough effort into what they are doing. okay i promise i am not going to be like them. haha. i shall learn from their mistakes and not make this errors in future :)
i just feel very angry for my doc. i seriously he think he dont need to suffer like this. lets hope everyone can be more reasonable and learn to honour the greatness and talent in others.
Busy playing guitar; vivo land!
