Re: Pros and Cons of marrying a lady doctor.
By all means have all the other priorities in life that you girls want. Just don’t do something stupid like tying up training seats that could have gone to people who actually would use it, and would do some good for humanity through their skills.
Going to ANY grad school and then not using those skills is a total waste of your time, your money, and everyone else’s time and money since it just increases the work-load globally. If Pakistan trained more sustainable doctors, then we wouldn’t be stuck between Morocco and Peru in terms of our human resources.
You girls don’t get the consequences of this. One doctor sees a crap load of patients per day. The more patient load you put on that one doctor, the less quality care they give.
Not to mention all the time that is spent in documenting, billing, and administrative work. Seeing 10-20 patients in one 4-5 hr period is no joke. Doctors end up taking their work home, they end up half-arsing their chart reviews, and overall give half-arse service to their clients.
Don’t complain about your doctors and your quality of doctors if you don’t support training them in a quality fashion, and part of that means when one makes a commitment to medicine, you stick with it.
That actually goes for any field. There is a remarkable worth in commitment to an idea, and that’s something that desis are not enlightened enough to grasp.
A dollar, however, is more grasp-able, and a dollar made in an easier fashion is what we value as Pakistanis. It’s not the effort that goes into things we care for anymore - we have no work ethic.
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You girls aren’t alone. I have a cousin who I think has abandoned her plans to go to med school and is now making cakes instead. I think she will make way more money than a lot of docs out there, and she’ll have more fun at it.
What I’m proud of is she didn’t waste a seat. She’s making the decision early on.
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