How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

sorry stupid question for the lao jiao FPs or GPs here who are kind enough to answer. I've been struggling to find the answer to my question of whether babies born in the 1960s (i.e. now in their 60s) were immunised against the typical DTap, MMR-V, Hib that we are today. Likely they weren't right since those immunisations were not compulsory then.

TDap they get a booster every 10 years regardless. Varicella most would have had chickenpox and are immune already.

So do we go around giving them MMR and Hib?? I am so confused because all these uncles and aunties NIR is also completely empty.

Jialat.
This is the state of the GPs out there.
Too many bond breakers who knows nothing.
Simple vaccination principle also dunno.

Get yourself educated pls.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Aesthetics is the way to go for effort-reward ratio. You don’t need to do any postgrad exams or wait years to get into plastics. You just need full-reg as you said. Only thing is you have to survive MoPEX, but that’s about it. You start off as a newbie earning $16000/month in an aesthetic chain. Gradually rises to $25000/month after you get 3 years of experience. Income potential is limitless as you eat what you kill. Most people leave to set up their own clinics after 7-8 years working for an aesthetic chain.

Plastics is good longer term, but be prepared to slog real hard in your 30s and 40s. You have to survive through residency, and then spend a long time in public honing your skills. Those plastic surgeons at Gleneagles/Mount E are in their 50s/60s. So yeah you can make a lot of money when you reach their level.

But the question is, do you have the patience to wait for that pot of gold?

When does one acquire the COCs required for aesthetics? On the side while working in PHI?

some terrible advice by some aesthetic peoples here lol

Dont get into medicine you guys.
you have basically wasted someone elses potential seat.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

some terrible advice by some aesthetic peoples here lol

Dont get into medicine you guys.
you have basically wasted someone elses potential seat.

As much as people may say otherwise, Medicine has the best risk adjusted return out of every career. Not tryna the holier than thou bs about wasting seats. I studied for 5 years in med school and worked hard I don’t owe anyone **** and make a honest living. What you do with ur degree is wholly up to you. If you wanna keep more people in PHIs increase pay improve work conditions don’t just complain that people are leaving for better pay and working conditions

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Jialat.
This is the state of the GPs out there.
Too many bond breakers who knows nothing.
Simple vaccination principle also dunno.

Get yourself educated pls.

tbh if they spent last 10 years as RP of any non polyclinic , non paeds dept they also might not know

Originally Posted by Unregistered

some terrible advice by some aesthetic peoples here lol

Dont get into medicine you guys.
you have basically wasted someone elses potential seat.

I think theyre more like people who are gunning for plastics

and theyre giving "good" advice to switch everone to aesthetics so that nobody else wants to enter residency anymore

it's common sense, aesthetics is just for short term gains .

now theres a huge hype... when the hype dies down, where will they go?

like back then donut craze or bubble tea crazy so many shops opening up....

and plastic surgeons in their 60s??
hello... there are many out in private practice in their 40s
they are probably making 200k-500k a month

Originally Posted by Unregistered

5 years of med school and 3-4 years of post-graduate training... adds up to 8-9 years right?

I assure you a 3rd or 4th year medical student is not doing colonoscopies. Playing in a sim lab maybe, but actual patient?

hahahah if you count medical school as experience.. might as well count kindergarten and pre-school because we also did played jigsaw puzzle to train our manual dexterity.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

is it really oversaturated tho? Clinics are booming and seeming to make substantial profit. The incomes earned by employees are also high

not oversaturated?

you know many industries pay high and initially due to investors

then when investor money dries , guess what happens

like what elon musk had to do to twitter employees. they were paid a lot to do easy work too.

Why envy

If u envy aesthetics big bucks then join them lor

No need envy one

if i wasn’t passionate about plastics i’d do aesthetics but i’m genuinely willing to suffer nust so i can be paid to do my hobby evryday