| Saturday, August 30, 2008 |
| Wrong Impressions I |
Why is the focus always on reducing the waiting time in the government outpatient clinics?
While you sit at the clinic thinking to yourself like every 150-200 patients who are waiting with you, "Why are the doctors taking so long?":
The head of department is busy calling down every doctor possible to come down to clinic to help see to a politician's 'ideal pre-election promises' that waiting time in clinics should never exceed 1 hour.
While every housemen and medical officer are being ordered to attend to those in the clinic, there are one to two housemen, probably with 2 taggers the most, of whom all have less than 4 months experience of work, looking after the more critical patients in the ward.
I mean, you did mention you didn't want inexperienced doctors attending to you in your clinic right? Did anyone check whether the patients in the ward wanted the same thing?
Did I mention that there's usually no medical officer (doctors who have at least one year experience) with the housemen in the ward? That's because everyone gets told to take care of clinic patients.. the housemen seeing to clinic patients need someone to consult, surely you don't think all of them go to only one specialist or medical officer to seek advice for 150-200 patients right?
So if you think to yourself, "Wow, so many doctors attending to us in the clinic."
There's 40+ patients in the ward being looked after by 4 junior housemen.. How can bad things not happen?
So really, do you really have to take this whole 'outpatient clinic waiting time' so seriously? |
posted by Sha @ 12:28 AM  |
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hi sasha :) yeah, sometimes we need to have our priorities cut out.. we need enough people to work, but work smart.. being alone in the ward can be scary but you will be alone in district clinics as well. We are basically being thrown into the deep sea and expected to learn to swim fast, and not allowed to drown :P ironic, but true eh? wait till you get to medical.. sigh.. till then, remember that you are working for God, and you will be able to find peace within yourselves :) *hugz* hang in there..
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hi sasha :) yeah, sometimes we need to have our priorities cut out.. we need enough people to work, but work smart.. being alone in the ward can be scary but you will be alone in district clinics as well. We are basically being thrown into the deep sea and expected to learn to swim fast, and not allowed to drown :P ironic, but true eh? wait till you get to medical.. sigh.. till then, remember that you are working for God, and you will be able to find peace within yourselves :) *hugz* hang in there..