Out of the Jaws of Death -~W.S~-
Yesterday I went to the education fair in KLCC with Nads and my sister. And guess what? Believe it or not about 90% of those who went there wanted to be doctors! God knows how many uncountable booths were offering degree in this ‘honorable’ field, along with terms like “one house one doctor”, door marks stating “don’t disturb I’m studying to be a Doctor”, and a lot of other pathetic sentences were displayed everywhere. It was like everyone had one and only one mission in life and that is; to be a doctor.
It’s not like I have anything against them (besides the fact that they took away our dispensing rights. But hey, we are doing their job by prescribing too in the pharmacy, so no complaints there:-)) but its just that the way these kids are going about wanting to be a doctor despite having unexceptional marks is just so heartbreaking. If before being a doctor was a noble job, coz the only thing they wanted was to care for people, now almost everyone is being one for glamour and name. Very few actually are doing it for care purposes.
On top of that there is this family pressure that makes sure that these kids have got no choice but to do it! I feel sorry for these kids. I was also one of them but thank god my dad ‘opened’ my eyes and made me see what being a doctor really was, and I changed my ambition. And now, looking at my medic friends, all I can say is; it’s a no-play-field. I mean getting into it is one thing, but surviving it is another. And when you come out, the journey doesn’t just stop there. Its one hell of a long journey which I think will never end till the day they die. And I am so lucky that I didn’t choose that path, or ill be dead by now:-)
It’s not like I have anything against them (besides the fact that they took away our dispensing rights. But hey, we are doing their job by prescribing too in the pharmacy, so no complaints there:-)) but its just that the way these kids are going about wanting to be a doctor despite having unexceptional marks is just so heartbreaking. If before being a doctor was a noble job, coz the only thing they wanted was to care for people, now almost everyone is being one for glamour and name. Very few actually are doing it for care purposes.
On top of that there is this family pressure that makes sure that these kids have got no choice but to do it! I feel sorry for these kids. I was also one of them but thank god my dad ‘opened’ my eyes and made me see what being a doctor really was, and I changed my ambition. And now, looking at my medic friends, all I can say is; it’s a no-play-field. I mean getting into it is one thing, but surviving it is another. And when you come out, the journey doesn’t just stop there. Its one hell of a long journey which I think will never end till the day they die. And I am so lucky that I didn’t choose that path, or ill be dead by now:-)
