How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If u sank into depression becuase fail an exam then it's not the exam but you
Pls seek help.

The hardest part of your medical career is getting in and not passing the exam

Getting into med school is hardest
Getting into residency is hardest.

Agree with your 1st sentence. Not so sure with your 2nd point though. FM residency not that hard to get in. (1in 2 Vs 1 in 3 depending on SI), but the exam is bloody hard to pass lol.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What are the other qns

1) pituitary adenoma presenting with headache and peripheral vision loss with normal drp photo
2) CVS exam
3) COPD with pulmonary hypertension, presenting with sob and chronic cough. Need to interpret spirometry
4) child with possible absence seizure, with mum concerns of adhd

5) step down care for newly diagnosed HFpEF
6) mechanical knee pain secondary to patellofemoral pain syndrome
7) chronic disease consult- DM/htn/ckd/OA
8) post partum depression with mother concerned about baby weight and feeding.
9) handling colleague mistake. Novomix mixed with novorapid (need to spot error)
10) peripheral neuropathy secondary to isoniazid use on b/g b12 deficiency
11) urge incontinence secondary to oab, in PT presenting with insomnia
12) fever secondary to acute hiv seroconversion

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Agree with your 1st sentence. Not so sure with your 2nd point though. FM residency not that hard to get in. (1in 2 Vs 1 in 3 depending on SI), but the exam is bloody hard to pass lol.

1 in 2 or 3 is actually considered quite competitive liao
Although how many really first choice I dunno
Worldwide FM always got left over spots
In sg it's actually competitive.

Dunno why everyone rushing into FM
Whatever garment push, always go the other way and u can't be wrong
I old school
Go FM is become doctor for the family
Chit chat with patient, know them and help them navigate their life
Now
In ops see 50 plus patient a day
I also dunno what I'm doing after patient 25 tbh
Patient wants to know more.
I want explain more
System don't let me
Sometimes I just tell them I dunno
I just a dumb polyclinic doctor, I not smart specialist.


On reflections I feel I let patient down.
But I give them my time, I let myself down.
Who is gonna pick up my child when infant care close?
Boss say I slow , not a team player, give me poor rating where I buy milk powder?

Terrible.
Think one fine day after I earn enuff
Just find a ulu clinic with cheap rent
One day see 20 patient can feed my family can liao.

Or maybe become locum
No liability
Anyhow see also 100 an hour.

Lately lots of newspaper forum post on healthier sg
All questioning cost of private healthcare
Then blame why ops no spots despite healthier sg

Sigh
I really think rich people has no business coming to ops
They should really raise the prices
Ops is too cheap.
Ops should be chas based
Blue tier 14.2 like current
Orange 21
Green 28
No chas 40
Pr 60
Foreigner 80

now locum jin ho tan

150$ per hour

public healthcare is screwed too many patients too little clinics

now they massively building but too slow, pap with their open leg population policies screwed us all.

say no to population ponzi, the healthcare system is not able to handle

Originally Posted by Unregistered

1 in 2 or 3 is actually considered quite competitive liao
Although how many really first choice I dunno
Worldwide FM always got left over spots
In sg it's actually competitive.

Dunno why everyone rushing into FM
Whatever garment push, always go the other way and u can't be wrong
I old school
Go FM is become doctor for the family
Chit chat with patient, know them and help them navigate their life
Now
In ops see 50 plus patient a day
I also dunno what I'm doing after patient 25 tbh
Patient wants to know more.
I want explain more
System don't let me
Sometimes I just tell them I dunno
I just a dumb polyclinic doctor, I not smart specialist.


On reflections I feel I let patient down.
But I give them my time, I let myself down.
Who is gonna pick up my child when infant care close?
Boss say I slow , not a team player, give me poor rating where I buy milk powder?

Terrible.
Think one fine day after I earn enuff
Just find a ulu clinic with cheap rent
One day see 20 patient can feed my family can liao.

Or maybe become locum
No liability
Anyhow see also 100 an hour.

Lately lots of newspaper forum post on healthier sg
All questioning cost of private healthcare
Then blame why ops no spots despite healthier sg

Sigh
I really think rich people has no business coming to ops
They should really raise the prices
Ops is too cheap.
Ops should be chas based
Blue tier 14.2 like current
Orange 21
Green 28
No chas 40
Pr 60
Foreigner 80

I empathize with you. Demands on Fam Med have increased. But budgets for Primary Care have not moved much. Patients are also different nowadays.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I empathize with you. Demands on Fam Med have increased. But budgets for Primary Care have not moved much. Patients are also different nowadays.

If FM as hard as you say it to be. Why are all of you not Specialists?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

now locum jin ho tan

150$ per hour

public healthcare is screwed too many patients too little clinics

now they massively building but too slow, pap with their open leg population policies screwed us all.

say no to population ponzi, the healthcare system is not able to handle

Government building 9 more polyclinic by 2030

Hey guys,

Close to finishing pathology residency, but not sure if I made the right choice. Feel like I'm forgetting my clinical knowledge. will have difficulty going back to working as a medical officer. Have some slight regret in my choices and wonder if I should go back and do gp. Any advice from the kind docs here?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hey guys,

Close to finishing pathology residency, but not sure if I made the right choice. Feel like I'm forgetting my clinical knowledge. will have difficulty going back to working as a medical officer. Have some slight regret in my choices and wonder if I should go back and do gp. Any advice from the kind docs here?

Surely after seeing all the rants from GPS here and the recent mmed exam, you will have 2nd thoughts before going to GP?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

If FM as hard as you say it to be. Why are all of you not Specialists?

Training to be a specialist is longer and tougher with more calls than the training for FM. Not everyone wants to go through that. But this does not mean FM is easy in itself. In fact it could be more difficult after training because there is no end to the breadth of knowledge needed. And in all of medicine there is no end to the depth of knowledge.