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Majority of doctors in Sg just want fame and glory. Look at the American Neurosurgeon Dr Ben Carson. He didn’t want to continue with the separation surgery when he saw how far more complicated it is.
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S'porean doctor, 54, from Raffles Hospital kena charged with causing death of woman by cutting the wrong arteries during kidney surgery
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S'porean specialists in private practice only go for the show, when they should be going for the "go" (getting the job done).
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Why they don’t be insurance agents since they are no better than them hard selling and showing off a rich lifestyle
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Insurance agents do not have it easy, having to convince customers to purchase their products while facing lots of rejection. Being a specialist in private practice is far more lucrative and respectable. Their God-given skills helps to earn them millions of dollars and live the lifestyle of GCBs and luxury cars as well as pretty wives.
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ROFL. Their God given skills? Many just out of smoke patients who have private insurances to do surgeries after surgeries like one of my ex colleagues.
She did a total of 5 surgeries over some mild knee pain under a private hospital surgeon.
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Did you graduate with a MBBS in the highly competitive 5-year undergraduate medical program offered by NUS and NTU (LKC Medicine), with a 4-year graduate MD program at Duke-NUS? Did you obtain postgraduate surgery qualifications in S'pore from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine for the Master of Medicine (Surgery) for your specialist accreditation? Yet you do not believe that surgeons in S'pore possess "God-given skills". Do I detect sour grapes here?
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someone in my office do this every year. we call it her annual staycation
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A former colleague was treated so poorly by his employer that he elected to do his total knee replacement surgery (covered fully by insurance) which includes 12 weeks' MC, just 4 months before his retirement!
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Not everyone in life needs to be a doctor to be successful and earn far more than any doctors out there.
LKC, YLL ,TTS, NTF, KTP where NUS, NTU medical schools and Sg hospitals are named after. None of these noble men attended NUS, NTU and Duke NUS Med sch.
The only sour grapes are doctors who think they possess God given skills above other doctors because they are human like every one else. They pee, shit, bleed when they get cut.
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ppl who use hospital stay as staycations
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Common. Seen from lots of old farts who are sour with their own employers and can’t accept the fact that they are only employees and will be dispensible
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Ageism is an undeniable fact for older employees. Employers find it hard to come up with practical reasons to keep older staff because they cost more in terms of salary and insurance premiums. Their years of experience and knowledge may be replicated by younger colleagues with the free flow of information online and AI.
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I never claimed that doctors are perfect, but in S'pore, the route to becoming a surgeon is arduous and only the "creme de la creme" succeed.
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Let's hear from real doctors, those who are genuinely concerned about patients as human beings, let's hear what real doctors have to say about what surgeries should you always decline:
"Two things that I would like to point out as an orthopaedist,
1) I had a 98-year-old patient who couldn’t walk. I said there’s a 50% chance you will die with the anaesthetic and his response was life is not worth living the way it is – it would be a good way to go – I replaced his knee and he dropped dead at 103 walking around his property with five useful pain-free years.
Do you really think a surgeon wants to deal with family/friends/lawyers because of a poor outcome!!
No surgery should ever be done until the patient feels that the loss of function and pain level are severe enough to warrant the risk associated with surgery. I very rarely see anything other than that from any surgeon as we don’t want to have to cope with complaining patients
2)your 20 minutes of Google research does not equate to my 30 years of experience as a clinician.
Patients make wrong choices as well!!!!"
"Two things that I would like to point out as an orthopaedist,
1) I had a 98-year-old patient who couldn’t walk. I said there’s a 50% chance you will die with the anaesthetic and his response was life is not worth living the way it is – it would be a good way to go – I replaced his knee and he dropped dead at 103 walking around his property with five useful pain-free years.
Do you really think a surgeon wants to deal with family/friends/lawyers because of a poor outcome!!
No surgery should ever be done until the patient feels that the loss of function and pain level are severe enough to warrant the risk associated with surgery. I very rarely see anything other than that from any surgeon as we don’t want to have to cope with complaining patients
2)your 20 minutes of Google research does not equate to my 30 years of experience as a clinician.
Patients make wrong choices as well!!!!"
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My colleague consulted an orthopedic surgeon from Mount Elizabeth Hospital and then his counterpart at NUH, using the same MRI and x-ray films and reports. The private orthopedist told my co-worker that a total knee replacement was needed without delay while the NUH surgeon referred him to a physiotherapist and trainer. My colleague walks without a limp up till today which is 5 years following his torn meniscus without undergoing the knee replacement surgery.
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The doctors play on your fears to profit from you.
Their rationale is that "it is wrong but not illegal".
And if you sue them, they'll just take out the MRI and x-ray and insist that they recommended surgery on that basis and based on their professional judgement.
Their rationale is that "it is wrong but not illegal".
And if you sue them, they'll just take out the MRI and x-ray and insist that they recommended surgery on that basis and based on their professional judgement.
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All private specialists are businessmen. If he tells a patient in pain that surgery is not necessary, the patient may seek a second opinion. If the next surgeon says an operation is needed without delay, the patient is lost to the competitor from then on.
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