Originally Posted by Unregistered

Totally agree with you. Can tell you definitely work Polyclinic. Nowadays only need to see 50? Used to be 70!

A few more points:

1) Seeing patients ie busting your butt to try to get through 50-70 patients in 8-9 hours is viewed as BASIC work. No kudos. No bonus. No accolades. No acknowledgement. No recognition. No rewards. In fact people say your job is "easy".
2) Bonus and recognition does NOT come from treating patients well and getting them results ie well managed or cured. Zip. Nada. As long as nothing bad ie no negligence, no mistakes can oredi. As my former Head of Polyclinic said "our job is to see the patient as quick as possible safely and then get them out the room so we can see the next one"
3) Bonus and recognition comes from other things like projects, research, other roles and responsibilities ON TOP of busting your butt seeing 50-70 patients wanting your love and care and concern = SUPER DRAINING
4) Rob Peter's time to pay Paul. HOD watches the queues and Polyclinic. If there is a room that is behind on waiting times they will ask why? Bad for the doctor's performance. So if you spent more time on Paul then you spend less time on Peter to try to catch up. But what if Peter is also another needy FON patient with lots of questions?
5) Humanistic? I guarantee you after you have to talk to 50-70 people everyday......that means 275-385 people a week , 1100 -1540 a month. That's a lot of people. And from all walks of life. Don't be surprised you find many characteristics of humans that make you dislike humans. Selfish. Self centred. Stubborn. Arrogant. Quarrelsome, Victim mentality etc etc
6) What a "good" doctor is to patients is not usually steeped in the science and how you actually treat them with medicine. It is a lot of BS sweet talk "human touch" nonsense that sometimes borders on lying to them giving them false hope, false sense of security and reassurance, friendly love and stuff. Makes you wonder why you had to go through all those years of training only to do the non-EBM things that make patients happy but doesn't harm them either. Placebos.
7) It is one patient at a time. And it is tiresome. There is no leverage. You can never see more than one patient at a time or help one person at a time. Goes against the ethics and privacy guidelines and you will get into trouble for it. Engineers can invent or build things that benefit thousands.
8) Each patient pays very little in the overall picture. And they usually pay a flat rate for your unlimited (limited by you) time. My analogy is that of prostitute. You wanna be the prostitute that services 50 clients a day each paying $20? Or the prostitute that goes for high net worth clients charging $5000 a night?

Go find work in finance. It is by far the best field to be in SG.