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assalamualaikum

in the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful

One issue that made the headline on The Star recently was "Houseman Glut". 2 more articles today

1. Housemen today are pampered
CONGRATULATIONS on your expose on the houseman sham. I think it is high time this issue be brought to the attention of the authorities concerned.

2. Check the slide before it goes out of control
I REFER to the report “Houseman glut” (The Star, Nov 27) about too many new doctors and too few hospitals to train them, and that these housemen even have time for a movie during work.

Perfect, huh?

Why are we getting the blame all the time?

The hierarchy goes from Medical Students-House Officers-Medical Officers-Specialist.

I am a house officer, of course.

When I started the job, there were only 4 of us in that busy medical ward. One day, we had more than 15 discharge summaries to be done, let alone mountains of other jobs, and my senior MO was sitting next to us reading Harian Metro. Better still, he was laughing looking at gossips and rumours.

On normal days, they can hardly be seen in the wards.

When these MOs are not on rosters for on call, they go home in the afternoon.

Once, a referral had to be made to a Chest Physician. It was 4.30 pm and the file was placed nicely and neatly right in front of our eyes. This referral was yet to be made, therefore I thought, let me just pick up the phone and make the call. This specialist nicely reminded me that this is not my job.

The next day, I was scolded by my respective specialist for making the call. Heck, I was scolded for doing the right thing. This group of so called medical officers was not given a word as a warning at all.

Believe me, I have just deleted what I wrote below 5 minutes earlier. I decided to cool it down first.

Don't ever trigger this bomb to explode please.

till next time,
assalamualaikum