My Doctor

Dr BL Og knows he will never be able to afford a Ferrari....
Much less the babes that comes along with it.....


Stumbled upon an old post by Blinkymummy today. She said:

"刚才在快速公路上，突然想起一件事。去年，我因考试与工作而睡不着，去看了医生。那医生可真他妈的没医德。

While I was trying to explain to him that I hadn't been able to sleep at night, his mobile kept ringing. Instead of putting it on silent mode, he picked it up like three times and spoke in a low whisper.

After the second teleconversation, I realised that he was talking to some car salesman. He was trying to order his fucking topless SLK, while attending to a patient on the brink of depression. Everytime he's done with his call, he would turn around, apologise and switch back to his "I'm so damn concerned about you as a sick person" voice. Then he issued me some sleeping pills which made me sleep but totally fucked up my waking hours.

Because Mr Doctor stays in my estate, I saw his motherfucking SLK the other day. He can afford to pay for that brilliant piece of engineering because of sick people like me. And he probably uses it to impress himself and shiteloads of chicks.

Die! Yuppie Scum! Die!!"

Source here

While she had complained that the doctor is unethical ("那医生可真他妈的没医德"), all he really did was to answer his phone. Could it be that after driving a Corolla for the past ten years, her doctor had finally bought himself a new car and hence he was overly excited so much so he couldn't resist picking the phone up? He was at best rude.... not "他妈的没医德". Nor is it unethical to prescribe sleeping pills for insomnia.... or would she rather her doctor sing her lallabys everynight?

Don't get the wrong idea that I'm trying to take Blinkymummy on.... No, no, no! Her post just reflects what the general public feel about docs these days. It is most saddening to see that doctors are percieved in such negative light. What went wrong??? It wasn't that long ago that doctors were well respected members of the community. I know because before I became a doctor, I was a patient first. When I was young, I would see my doctor and hold him in awe. I never tried faking illness and even when I was down with flu, if my doctor did not give me an MC, I never asked for one. These days in my hospital staff clinic, I can have people telling me that MC is their entitlement.

So what has changed over these past few decades??? Has doctors become less professional? Has patients become more demanding? Has the society as a whole become intolerant? I think people's attitude have changed.... not only do they expect doctors to be healers, they expect doctors to provide good services and Blinkmummy's doctor has obviously failed the latter but not the former!

So is there something "他妈的没医德" about her doctor getting an expensive car? She is right you know, he can afford the car because of "sick people". You have to also realise that it is not only the expensive car but the condominium, the Moët & Chandon and junior's preschool education to some Montessori childcare centre that the doctor pays for with sick people's money. Would you then also fault a lawyer for doing the same with kannah sued people or funeral parlour owners with dead people. If not, why single out the doctor who works 70 hours a week and eat shit sleeps in his clinic for affording the finer things in life.

Of course there are always blacksheeps. But every corner I turn in the hospital, I still see doctors who dedicate their lives to the care of their patients and in every neighbourhood I still hear of those GPs who see the old and poor for free.

Do you want to be patients or clients/customers? Do we want to treat patients or entertain customers? Will there come a day when doctors are merely service providers? And when that day comes are you ready to part with the additional 10% service charge since we cheapskate Singaporeans don't ever tip? Maybe then, Blinkymummy's doctor will be driving a Ferrari and not just a SLK.

However, I do not think we will ever come to that (and doctors will thus never be able to afford a Ferrari) coz despite her obvious irritation with her doctor, Blinkymummy had not titled the post "That Doctor" or "The Doctor" or maybe even " 他妈的没医德 Doctor". He was after all still "My Doctor".