I AGREE with Dr K.H. Sng’s view, “Once noble, now miserable” (The Star, Dec 14), that in this day and age, it is very challenging to be a doctor.
However, it is not all doom and gloom. Despite heavier patient expectations, many surveys continue to show that doctors remain the most trusted professionals in society. With the proliferation of demanding patients and relatives, fuelled by the Internet and social media, the art of medicine has come to the fore, and patients and their relatives have to be educated, convinced and directed back to the logic and science of medical diagnosis and treatment.
