How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Retention bonus? ********.

Let me put it to rest for all you OPS people who waiting for some Payraise.
THE PAYRAISE IS NOT MEANT FOR YOU.
Hospital ppl enjoy your second bonus in 2 years.

Sounds about right as OPS does not work as hard as other doctors in the hospital.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Until you missed something. Gastric Ca. Pancreatic Ca. then patient say doctor never warned me.
Jia lat. No documentation you warned patient of red flags. Suggested further investigation.
Sue.

Then get rdy for a MRA charge?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sounds about right as OPS does not work as hard as other doctors in the hospital.

Yup.
OPS / primary care is very low value work.
Standard of care is similar to M5 student or worse.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Retention bonus? ********.

Let me put it to rest for all you OPS people who waiting for some Payraise.
THE PAYRAISE IS NOT MEANT FOR YOU.
Hospital ppl enjoy your second bonus in 2 years.

Don’t hospital and polyclinic ppl take the same kind of bonus? At Ops have retention bonus, hospital don’t.

Don’t hospital and polyclinic ppl take the same kind of bonus? At least Ops have retention bonus, hospital don’t.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yup.
OPS / primary care is very low value work.
Standard of care is similar to M5 student or worse.

Couldn't agree more. Low value work = low value compensation. You reap what you sow.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Couldn't agree more. Low value work = low value compensation. You reap what you sow.

So sad.
But ok la
Primary care low value work low pay lo
Hospital high value work but pay also low..really milking your altruism
Heng I not in hospital..my altruism v low.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

So sad.
But ok la
Primary care low value work low pay lo
Hospital high value work but pay also low..really milking your altruism
Heng I not in hospital..my altruism v low.

It's okay, don't be sad, you happy can already tbh. Don't need compare with others.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Don’t hospital and polyclinic ppl take the same kind of bonus? At least Ops have retention bonus, hospital don’t.

Yes the young fp bonus of 50k over 3years is only for ops. (Even ch don't have) but I guess that's because our basic way lower than an exited specialist lah.

Not complaining as I do appreciate that specialist really add more value to a pt than fp. (coming from an exited FM resident who cleared mmed). I feel that fp role in the healthcare ecosystem is to be the screener/1st point of contact for pts. We help to screen out and manage the simple cases, and hand over the complex ones to the specialist.

For example, oa knee, we counsel on activity modification, physio, quad strengthening exercises, analgesia. Actually Ortho can do exactly what we do plus they can do tkr. Just that they don't have the manpower to do that for all pts, hence they only see the severe cases that require op. But their skill set is way better than us.

We are essentially seeing the simple cases of all specialities so that the specialist themselves don't get overwhelmed with the mundane.

Just my personal opinion of course, and I do expect people to disagree.

Hi seniors, currently 2nd year in Med School. A non insignificant proportion of my batch mates now aspire to be aesthetic Med Drs. However, it seems that one does not need a medical degree to be able to do these procedures that beauticians probably can do as well. Am I missing something here? Why spend 5 years to get a medical degree just to become a glorified beautician?