How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I think pregnant ladies excused from calls from 3rd trimester

I was excused from calls in third trimester
But I took exams immediately post partum and that was incredibly stressful coz I failed 1 year before. Luckily managed to pass the second time.

It was hard. Incredibly hard. Missed a lot of time with my older child.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I would advise the young Dr's here to consider investing in a freehold landed property while they are young and can leverage on their income.

Me and my hubby profited S$1 mil so far from our owner occupied properties by buying and selling. Currently just bought a freehold terrace for S$3.4 mil but it is actually valued at S$4 mil. Once we sell our condo, we will have another S$1 mil in profits already. Total S$2 mil by investing in properties.

Really don't save much by working, only property investments give astronomical exponential gains.

With Population White Paper of 6.9 mil population by 2030, property sure huat.

I will tell my parents that they should have had me 10 years earlier

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I will tell my parents that they should have had me 10 years earlier

Thats 10 years too late

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I think pregnant ladies excused from calls from 3rd trimester

Are we excused from calls after delivery? e.g. for at least the first 1-2 years?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Are we excused from calls after delivery? e.g. for at least the first 1-2 years?

No. I wasn’t. I also don’t think it’s standard

Originally Posted by Unregistered

No. I wasn’t. I also don’t think it’s standard

I don’t think moh is so kind

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don’t think moh is so kind

we need to appeal to MP

Originally Posted by Unregistered

we need to appeal to MP

After you have gone through the proper channels first.

Your mother or father can appeal to MP for you without your consent.

Can I ask, fellow male practitioners here, do you all get chaperone when examining the lungs or heart? (E.g for urti case)

Feeling scared/confused after the recent mme webinar last sat. Seems quite easy to get complaint/sued nowadays..
If you admit that you examine over the clothes, then they can say this is not the usual standard of care (which is full exposure of chest for respiratory exam)

Just feels that we are in a precarious position practicing medicine daily. Just seen a senior doctor suspended for missing a torsion (for a boy who presented initially with abdominal pain)
Like 1 mistake, your rice bowl gone

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can I ask, fellow male practitioners here, do you all get chaperone when examining the lungs or heart? (E.g for urti case)

Feeling scared/confused after the recent mme webinar last sat. Seems quite easy to get complaint/sued nowadays..
If you admit that you examine over the clothes, then they can say this is not the usual standard of care (which is full exposure of chest for respiratory exam)

Just feels that we are in a precarious position practicing medicine daily. Just seen a senior doctor suspended for missing a torsion (for a boy who presented initially with abdominal pain)
Like 1 mistake, your rice bowl gone

unker when i locum, i nv examine front one unless is very paeds or very old aunty.
urti just need to ascultate back for most cases what

die die need chaperone if you touch the front.

the senior doctor suspension is correct. imagine if your son lose a ball. or you lose a ball.
young boy testicular pain is always torsion. after torsion is ruled out is EO.
always refer. you dont have ultrasound in your clinic go get one. if you dont have one, please send to ed.

another trap is cornea ulcer. very painful red eye with vision problem. always refer. then you tell me your clinic no slit lamp or fluorescin. then of course you should refer right. sometimes hard to determine cornea abrasion or ulcer. still refer.

the era is different. in 1800s lose balls nvm, become enunch or castrato singer. in 2020 cannot. coz no job for enunch or castroto singers.

btw gdfm would have sufficiently taught the above two conditions. i was a gdfm grad.