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people don't become doctors to become social workers. most people aren't born leaders or innovators. why don't all engineers move to rural areas and start novel schemes to help them? why don't bankers open microlending agencies all over the villages?
in the end, it is the job of those in positions of power and those that make policy to plan how to develop areas that need to be developed. doctors engineers etc are mere cogs.
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This is unfair that we exempt doctors from rest of the professions and expect them to do insaniyat kee khidmat, while engineers and lawyers make money. Doctors also work as hard (even harder) to get their degrees and they have every single right to turn it into a profitable carer.
Having said that, those who refuse to go to rural areas are ethically not doing anything wrong, but those who go and dont take care of the patients are someone we should criticize.,
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Dang it, queer said the same thing 
people don't become doctors to become social workers. most people aren't born leaders or innovators. why don't all engineers move to rural areas and start novel schemes to help them? why don't bankers open microlending agencies all over the villages?
in the end, it is the job of those in positions of power and those that make policy to plan how to develop areas that need to be developed. doctors engineers etc are mere cogs.
Are you a doctor?
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yeah tlk, you just copied my post and added some spelling mistakes. 
Muje app dono doctors lag rahey hain is waqt.
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people don't become doctors to become social workers. most people aren't born leaders or innovators. why don't all engineers move to rural areas and start novel schemes to help them? why don't bankers open microlending agencies all over the villages?
in the end, it is the job of those in positions of power and those that make policy to plan how to develop areas that need to be developed. doctors engineers etc are mere cogs.
Its not about being social worker. people consult doctors in very difficult times. Other examples of professions, you have given, may remain away from rural areas and people can still survive their lives without their services.. but that is not true in doctor's cases. They need to think beyond money. I think its difficult for them to do so, but atleast they should not play with patient's psyche by abruptly saying ' tum la-ilaaj ho'
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Having said that, those who refuse to go to rural areas are ethically not doing anything wrong, but those who go and dont take care of the patients are someone we should criticize.,
Agree with the bold part 100%... but as far as the other part is concerned Doctors belonging to those rulers areas (they born there, they got education, they selected on the quota of that area) should be ethically liable to serve those areas. You know the people, you know their language, so you have to return the debt of your people.
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I dunno about that but I think doctors are snobs. Well at least the ones I know. :/
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I dunno about that but I think doctors are snobs. Well at least the ones I know. :/
Everyone knows one :)
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Everyone knows doctors who are snobs?
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Agree with the bold part 100%... but as far as the other part is concerned Doctors belonging to those rulers areas (they born there, they got education,** they selected on the quota of that area) should be ethically liable **to serve those areas. You know the people, you know their language, so you have to return the debt of your people.
Good point. I forgot about the quota system.
Just like Queer mentioned, govt should make a policy that if you became doctor out of certain quots system, you should go back and serve your community for 5 years.
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if they do NOT like to work in rural areas then why NOT spare one day in a month to go and treat patients whoo can't travel to the cities...why don't they have pool of doctors like the** 'doctors without boeders' **who can help the rural folks.
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@ hadeel I think so.. as far as the Pakistan is concerned. My saga Mamoo is a doctor and people say ‘iske hath main shifa hai’, but whenever his sisters / brothers go to his home.. The first question he ask is ‘kia huwa hai tabeeyat ko?’ 
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Forget doctors not going to rural areas, you have plenty of doctors leaving the country. The problem is much larger that simply doctors don't care.
On a similar note, I know of a story of a hindu student from a rural area who was able to get into medical school and when he finally returned to his village, the village didn't accept him. So, you have to think about it from all sides, or as many as possible.
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But unfortunately that doesn’t happen. I observed (may be I’m wrong) that old generation of doctors was a little bit ready to serve people of their area but new lot is so arrogant that they feel it their insult if they have to work in their area.. Big glamorised hospitals is their ultimate destiny and they are getting moral support from the society for being that materialistic as I mentioned in a post above that confirmation from a Doctor that he would not work in rural area and will make Hyderabad or Karachi his place of work won him his love lady 
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Forget doctors not going to rural areas, you have plenty of doctors leaving the country. The problem is much larger that simply doctors don't care.
On a similar note, I know of a story of a hindu student from a rural area who was able to get into medical school and when he finally returned to his village, the village didn't accept him. So, you have to think about it from all sides, or as many as possible.
The town I belong to have plenty of Hindu Doctors and people don't have any issue consulting them. In Hyderabad, Dr Pushpa is the famous lady specialist and I know that many families from rural Sindh consult to her.
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please nurse kinzz, call me dr. queer from now on. dr. queer who works in the city hospitals only.
muqawwee, doctors are all kinds too - most are mediocre, corrupt etc. in a society where everything is corrupt you can’t expect angels for doctors - their professional ethics are going to reflect that of their surroundings. it is unfortunate, but you can’t reform just one tiny segment of your society - that too without offering them any special incentives.
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They key point is plenty vs 1. I'll grant you that overall it's not as much of an issue. But I was simply presenting a case from the other view point. Factor in the family was originally extremely poor, and you have not only religion + status change.