How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What if you just join a chain group gp(e.g raffles, healthway, northeast medical grp etc)
You will just be an employee right, no need deal with rental tpa all these stuff?
And you can locum in your off day to supplement your income (something that Drs in ops can't do)

U will be asked to anchor, and be responsible for that clinic profit

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What if you just join a chain group gp(e.g raffles, healthway, northeast medical grp etc)
You will just be an employee right, no need deal with rental tpa all these stuff?
And you can locum in your off day to supplement your income (something that Drs in ops can't do)

Chain hire u also have no locum contract clause.

Besides, u work all day , Saturday morning and probably 2 evening a week and u still want to locum? U pro.
If anything ,u work ops, u got more time ( but no necessary energy) to locum.
TPA and rent increase is real. They eat into profits and your salary eventually.

Go out if u dun want or can't study and pass exams. But be prepared to be squeezed. There is a price to pay for just being a mbbs and that is a sacrifice of your time. At one point aesthetic was good ..but everyone starts to come in too.
At ops, patient keep coming but sometimes got spare pockets of time chill a bit quite nice. In gp land , no patient come u feel stress from no income.
If I were to setup my clinic, I rather find a ulu spot, pay low rent , dun take TPA and see a good 20 to 30 cases a day and manage them properly. But then again , I'm properly trained and not Ur mbbs only.

Best is become specialist la. Do some knowledge based speciality like haematology , infectious disease or endocrine where it's more consultative in nature. Dun do gen med , cardio , gen surgery where u bear the grunt. Last time community hospital not too bad but heard getting worse also.

What is TPA?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yeah but not easy to find doctor also. The doctors on dating apps so far quite unfriendly

the med girls i met also not very chio irl. pics look ok but probably from a few years back before grad lol. work a few years as MO, looks all down the drain alr. a lot of sheltered uptight christian princess types, don't seem to have much by the way of conversation. the worse are the ones who want to act atas lol.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

the med girls i met also not very chio irl. pics look ok but probably from a few years back before grad lol. work a few years as MO, looks all down the drain alr. a lot of sheltered uptight christian princess types, don't seem to have much by the way of conversation. the worse are the ones who want to act atas lol.

Sigh it’s very difficult. Law girls can be difficult too. 24-25 I would have dated them and perhaps if they stayed on would have been married. But now at 30 I have a lot of difficulty. As they say, if they were more humble, accepting, not so choosy when younger, it would have been easier to get married

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Sigh it’s very difficult. Law girls can be difficult too. 24-25 I would have dated them and perhaps if they stayed on would have been married. But now at 30 I have a lot of difficulty. As they say, if they were more humble, accepting, not so choosy when younger, it would have been easier to get married

I don't think anyone's goal should be to "get married". If can't find a suitable partner, it's probably in women's better interest to stay single (unless they die die want to have children).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't think anyone's goal should be to "get married". If can't find a suitable partner, it's probably in women's better interest to stay single (unless they die die want to have children).

What if yolo but by the time 50 years old regret?
Don’t think can turn back the clock

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What if yolo but by the time 50 years old regret?
Don’t think can turn back the clock

With 50% of marriages ending in divorce, it is going to be a toss up anyway.

how competitive is it to get a psych residency in sg?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

how competitive is it to get a psych residency in sg?

Very competitive i got rejected as M5 yllsom.
U shld try to do enough psy postings, projects and show interest


But okay lah, i console myself that i dont need to spend so much time per blue letter.