Consideration for specialists

I AM called to speak up on this matter after a lot of deliberation. I know this concern is shared by many medical doctors, yet, due to our training and our ingrained belief that patients and service have to come first, we don’t talk about this issue openly despite much discontentment and frustration among government doctors.

Most of us chose to join this profession to save lives and serve the people. We knew becoming doctors could compromise our time with the family or time for our own self-development, yet we chose this profession regardless. Many of us did so with the hope that the future would look better as we moved along our career path, from house officer to medical officer to specialist and, finally, to consultant.