It is not just in the medical field. The type of mediocre society that we have created only mediocre close to incompetence people are filled up in all levels of job including the prime minster himself. TDM just couldn’t even select any good successor among the nation of the blind. TDM really had no choice, if the successor is not a homosexual, then he appears to be an international playboy or he is just a sleeping ugly. See how Singapore did for the preparation of their competent successors.

In analogy, we originally have good hands and good legs, but the so called abused NEP had crippled the people and instead offered crutches to substitute the normal walking. How could we move correctly or fast?

Good people will not want to mix with rotten people scared that they may be rotten in the end. That is true especially for graduates of any discipline. That is a very serious setback for the development of human capital. A correctly trained overseas doctor would like to stay back or look for some place where he could get a proper mentor to get a correct training. In our current environment of the blind leading the bind, it is almost like nailing a coffin to your own career if one has to come back.

For the educational fund defaulters, our incompetent administrators can’t even devise an effective system to enforce those overseas scholarship holders to come back to serve the country. On the contrary, look at Singapore, they can even offer the scholarships to foreigners and yet able to enforce them to serve their government upon completion of their studies. You just can’t talk about professionalism and integrity which anyway our government itself does not have much either.

When mediocre people occupy most of the positions, they tend to form an opinion to object those good ones who try to improve. The common phrase is “Don’t raise the standard!”. The so-called good money attracts good money and the bad money attracts bad money takes the effect.

When very VIPs got sick, the first place they rush to is the hospital overseas, and the nearest one is Singapore, followed by US, London or Perth. We can see how confident we have on our medical support, and so the doctors.

It is indeed very sad to see that whilst Singapore is developing high tech treatment, stem cell treatment for various types of cancer and yet we still can’t get our fundamental medical treatment from our own medical facility. Perhaps life is cheap in Malaysia. It is true the way Altantuya was killed, and it is only the tip of the iceberg.

“The majority of students nowadays studying medicine simply because they want to be wealthy. Honestly speaking, how many of them are genuinely interested to save people’s lives? The world is ‘no money no talk’” – justice_fighter Says

As you can see what mentioned by Dr tidaknama: With RM 2500 to 6000 a month, how rich can you be? It is incorrect to say people study medicine because of the wealth. Unless you love to care for people, seeing and being with sick people can be very demoralizing.

However, health care career is always in demand everywhere in the world, and it is easier for a young kid to secure a job easily and could move from that point. On top of that in the first world country, doctors are usually best paid people. For a doctor to be wealthy, he needs to be very good and famous. But if he is really that good, he deserves it anyway.

For those who think of wealth, it is better to do something like commerce or finance subjects.

Medicine is nowadays a technology, and the total medical system has to wok well and not just doctors alone. In our government hospitals, how often do we hear that the ambulance runs out of petrol and could not send the patient on time? How often do we hear that the diagnosing machines broke down, out of maintenance and could not be utilized on time? Or we have the equipments but no one know how to use it? With all the equipments fixed up, doctors are not able to make decision of how to go further, the list goes on! Life and death is separated by a thin sheet of paper, and speed is very important and the total system has to cater for that.

Actually, it boils down to management again which is a pain in the arse of our bolehland and it is a team work and unfortunately doctors are the easy targets to get the blame.