TORN between Medicine and Dentistry (Please read and don't judge) Advice Please (1 Viewer)

[T-R-O-L-O-L]

Go with your passion, you shouldn't be asking others. At the end of the day you will be paying those fees and working in that job for a LONG time

 

[bangladesh]

Nope. I would have preferred a corporate role which still interacts with clients or I want to start my own business. If I wanted to work for someone else it would want to find work in a newly founded company that is making an active impact on the world through progressive thinking. It would ideally be an international company which will allow me to experience culture of a different country whilst working. I feel the health system is poorly run by the administrative staff and the people at the top are not progressive thinkers. Kind of wished I realised this earlier but it's what happens when you are a sheltered Asian child.

haha I've heard sports medicine specialists travel a lot if they choose to, maybe do that for a few years to take a break and see the world for free(and get paid) and see if that changes things for you.

I do agree that the admin staff are a huge burden on the health system but there doesnt seem to be a simple solution to resolving that.

 

[Medman]

haha I've heard sports medicine specialists travel a lot if they choose to, maybe do that for a few years to take a break and see the world for free(and get paid) and see if that changes things for you.

I do agree that the admin staff are a huge burden on the health system but there doesnt seem to be a simple solution to resolving that.

Yeh that's what I intend to do. Was going to take 1/2 year - 1 year off during residency and see how things progress. Who knows what might change in that time. Life lesson; things you are certain of now may not be the same in the future.

Admin staff are hopeless. They do rosters manually in this day and age when I am sure there is software out there that can be used to allocate rosters. We've had multiple issues this year with people not being rostered on because the admin staff screwed up and then forcing certain individuals to do shifts at last minute's notice. They've also made multiple breaches of the award this year which, required the union threatening legal action before they did something about it. I am currently in the middle of sorting out another issue with work hours. All these union issues would have been preventable if they bothered to read the award for junior medical officers. Even if doctors are "smart" you have to realise that is only a small population of the hospital.