Ever since our gahmen's pro-creation policy was announced, many departments had started on five days work week. But as my boss correctly put it, "Diseases do not respect office hours". So most doctors are still rostered to come back on weekends to see patients. And yes, you guessed it (if you didn't, you haven't been reading enough of my blog, press Alt-F4), we don't get paid for the hours spent doing these morning rounds.
You can claim for transportation though it has come to my notice that despite the steep hike in petrol prices, our mileage claim had remained the same for the past donkey years.
And to compensate for the Saturdays off, our working hours have been increased by half hour per day during week days (you do the maths). As you see, while diseases don't respect office hours, administrators most definitely do......
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You are like the medical equivalent of cheekybynature.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laughs. :)
Sounds like a dog's (doc's)life ! ( punt intended )
ReplyDeleteheh, punt intended indeed. i'd like to punt them into the ulu-est corner of a far flung galaxy for paying lip service to human resource management. funny how they restricted medical student intake during the 80s and 90s on the grounds that there was an excess supply. now i hear the intake's been raised to near 300 per year on the basis of a shortage. kinda like the stop at 2, then have 3 or more population control policies.
ReplyDeletetoo many sick ah pehs, too few lokuns...
lol at least doctors get compensated but not the nurses.
ReplyDeleteso SGH pass JCI liao, how are they gonna reward you gers for all the overtime ah??
ReplyDeleteThere can never be enough doctors. Now they intake so many next and because BO BIAN have to pass some of the lousier students.. It's gonna be lousy for everyone leh!
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