How is life as a doctor in Singapore?

Meanwhile the insurance industry and the government keeps making it seem like doctors are the main cause of inflation in healthcare.

Would like to ask the locums here, is it common for private groups/clinic to not pay their doctors for a shift or delay their payment, and if it happens, what can one realistically do? (Other than stop locuming for that clinic).

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Would like to ask the locums here, is it common for private groups/clinic to not pay their doctors for a shift or delay their payment, and if it happens, what can one realistically do? (Other than stop locuming for that clinic).

Same advice to foreign maids:

Please complain to MOM.

Late payments are considered Red flags.

Do people feel that there is too much BS going on in LinkedIn nowadays? I see many people (ranging from junior-senior doctors, allied health personnel, corporate management people) posting things like, I attended this forum/conference/I spoke to this person and learn about the importance of building systems.../holistic care etc.. gives me goosebumps sometimes. I wonder if recruiter/employers are actually looking for such publicity nowadays

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Do people feel that there is too much BS going on in LinkedIn nowadays? I see many people (ranging from junior-senior doctors, allied health personnel, corporate management people) posting things like, I attended this forum/conference/I spoke to this person and learn about the importance of building systems.../holistic care etc.. gives me goosebumps sometimes. I wonder if recruiter/employers are actually looking for such publicity nowadays

theyre just givinf the industry what irs looking for

ever since i was an MO peeople tell me i need to be visible
i need to show people im doing something

and that somethint is not ward work, not in OT. people dont csre if you can do surgery or not.what they want is you can publish and have connections

It is going to conferences, presenting some lame paper during m&m when everyone wants to end fast to go to OT.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Same advice to foreign maids:

Please complain to MOM.

Late payments are considered Red flags.

sure or not can complain to MoM. if so easy dont you thibk he would have done it?

also, earn above certain.amount plus youre a professiinal....u sure Is still under MOMjurisdiction

ever heard of TDAM?


btw, last time i heard a large aesthetic chain stopped paying few months before they closed down

Originally Posted by Unregistered

theyre just givinf the industry what irs looking for

ever since i was an MO peeople tell me i need to be visible
i need to show people im doing something

and that somethint is not ward work, not in OT. people dont csre if you can do surgery or not.what they want is you can publish and have connections

It is going to conferences, presenting some lame paper during m&m when everyone wants to end fast to go to OT.

yes so dont be the person who stays behind doing ward work. be the person who goes for conferences overseas. even if take MC ( i have a headache because of research), skip ward work etc to do your research stuff (can always tell con that you'll do research in the afternoon since no clinic and there is a coMO who can run the wards ... if Con say yes, then registrar dont dare to stop you, so your co-MO will have to tank it all)

dont worry, because consultants will favour someone with something to show rather than someone who only does the behind the scenes work , and will actually think youre even more enthu than your poor coMO who stupidly goes to OT, goes and settle ward work and stuff.

1 year down the line, you will have several publications to your name and conferences attended, while your coMO who does all the ward work which was supposed to be shared will get nowhere because nobody logs how many patients he clerked, how many consents he signed, how many OTs he attended , and whether he can do a certain procedure etc

he will basically be invisible, while you're already one foot in residency.

thank me later guys.

What do you guys think of the recent case where doctor was suspended for not referring a cellulitis case to ed.

I read the judgement from the tribunal, it appears that it is expected to refer the patient at the first visit.
- I must admit that I have seen and treated cellulitis with outpatient antibiotics for DM patients before, usually with return advice and early review within 2 days, and many do recover with outpatient treatment.. I usually check and document the DP pulse (but wouldn't surprise me if I do forget on the odd occasion)
- I just wonder/worry if drs will become more defensive as a result, all cellulitis in dm pts straight to ed.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

What do you guys think of the recent case where doctor was suspended for not referring a cellulitis case to ed.

I read the judgement from the tribunal, it appears that it is expected to refer the patient at the first visit.
- I must admit that I have seen and treated cellulitis with outpatient antibiotics for DM patients before, usually with return advice and early review within 2 days, and many do recover with outpatient treatment.. I usually check and document the DP pulse (but wouldn't surprise me if I do forget on the odd occasion)
- I just wonder/worry if drs will become more defensive as a result, all cellulitis in dm pts straight to ed.

if every doctor documents at the end "advised to go to ED but declined " andof course mentiob it tobthe patients, willthey be absolved of any potential litigation in terms of treatment choice? provided diagnosis is reasonable. but then even if diagnosis is wrong, doctor can.always argue "had you gone to ED as I had advised, the right diagnosis would have been made clear by the ED wit their more sophisticated diagnostic tools"

why dont they justuse templates like in hospital. u know those working in hospital got a smartphrase list. everything just comes out, so if anything happens backside is covered. maybe the smartphrase listis even vetted by lawyers lol