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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Old GP here. Can say this part is very accurate as Singapore healthcare is still very specialist-driven. Specialists are very well-paid for the work done which is mostly done by juniors in hospital anyway. As GP you need to slog yourself for half the specialist pay and you need to do it till you are old grandpa, while your specialist med school friends can retire a decade before you. Somemore if they want to work part-time while retired they can even locum as GP and steal your patients lol.
Advice to young birds don't do GP, and even if you don't heed that advice definitely don't get sucked in by their sweet talk and waste time doing the useless FM mmed which is not recognised anywhere.
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If gps are paid 15k, then hospital specialists are paid 30k/mth?
Don't know who to believe, I am pgy 5 now, still keep in contact with some of my regs that I worked with as a HO (who are now consultant in both medical and surgical fields), don't think they get paid 30k leh. In fact, one of the friends got promoted to Neuro ac just 3 months back, he told me basic pay only 12.5k plus a few little add on allowance for your qualifications..
Unless you tell me ac to con to senior con the pay jump from 12.5k to 30k?