Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

[kakaballi]

Re: Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

@Iconoclast

All of you are ganging up on doctors but let me remind you a few things.

Government does not subsidise medical education only, it subsidises all education, so all engineers, technicians, BAs, MAs, Pharmacists etc should also be made to sign that they shud work for government on salaries decided by the government.

Secondly, they do have a point that Shehbaz Sharif is throwing away billions of rupees on laptops but cannot add to budget of health ministry.
Other government employees may get bit less salary than doctors but the working hours for junior doctors is double than that of other government employees.

1. Doctors are not forced to work for government and they should not be. If they do, they should accept the terms and conditions offered when they accepted the job, like any other organization.

2. Engineers cannot really do ‘private practice’ while in government jobs.

3. Heavy working hours for doctors are a training for them that most doctors in the west can only dream of. Most of the doctors I know prefer government jobs at the start of career because they have so many opportunities to learn at the job and make contacts for their future private practice.

One might think that if conditions are so bad, why most of the intelligent and bright students still prefer going to a medical school in Pakistan. They do get quality education and opportunities in future (having established a private practice) are fantastic. I can compare financial position of an average doctor in Pakistan in his/her 50s who has been working for government for years to that of an engineer working same number of years for government. The gap is HUGE, unless the engineer has ‘other means’ of income

Young doctors have been taking initial difficult years of work at government hospitals as training on the job for decades now. I don’t know what really has changed so suddenly.