It's incredulous what doctors are capable of doing these days. I'm not talking about medical advances; for these will come to naught if doctors refuse to treat patients. I'm talking about doctors who choose to turn away patients who are not regulars in their clinics. These are GP which operates until mid-night in the heartland for the benefits of their so-called regular patients.
A reader of the ST Forum wrote in today to lend his support to the doctors' practice, adding that these doctors "are loath to accept patients who see their competitor doctors but take advantage of their clinic's services only when their regular clinics are closed". Did I read right? "Take advantage"? When one is sick and in pain close to mid-night, who simply goes where the nearest medical help is available. I would hardly consider that "taking advantage" of the doctors!
It was also reported that a clinic in Serangoon has rules stipulating that only regular patients are entitled to see the doctors when the clinic is open on holiday, and no new patients will be attended unless brought in by a regular.
Have these doctors lost their bearing? Whatever happened to the doctors' work ethic? Are they not trained to save lives? And to ease the suffering of the sick? Regardless of who the patients are? What kind of society are we living in, when the doctors can pick and choose the patients who depend on them to save their lives?
The practice is so wrong. These doctors are giving the medical profession a bad name.
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Chris, I believe I have said this before in one of your earlier posts in which you were also griping about the medical profession. (Hmm... you seem to have a thing against the doctors, don't you?)
Some doctors treat the Hippocratic oath as a Hypocritic oath. It is a well-known fact that most doctors have illegible handwriting hence I don't blame them for mixing up the spellings of the two words. But some of them have even mixed up the meanings of the two words. Thankfully, such doctors are a minority.
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