Quitting medicine??

Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

And 60 percent of 12,000 general practice physicians found they would not recommend medicine as a career.

Source.

Well, well. Nobody said medicine’s gonna be easy. Doctoring is a tough job. It expects full concentration, commitment, perfection etc. In Malaysia, although the doctors have drastic increase of salary after housemanship, the question is the lifestyle, as said by one of the doctors:

 

The whole thing has spun out of control. I plan to retire early even though I still love seeing patients. The process has just become too burdensome

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Published in:  on November 19, 2008 at 3:38 am Comments (5)
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