Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

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Re: Shahbaz Sharif vs Doctors

@kakaballi

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.

Its only been a few years that trainees are being paid.
Engineers also take up private work
Number of doctors in west is regulated, each graduate is guaranteed a place for training, actually there are more training jobs available in west than the number of their medical graduates, thats why you have foreign graduates filling up the posts.
Why people still apply for medicine, i don’t know, i will not put my kids into medicine. Its a highly stressed job with long working hours, continuous training. Money paid is not worth the effort doctors put in.