PETALING JAYA: One doctor decided to opt out of her housemanship training after realising that it was not the life she wanted.

The 32-year-old woman, who only wished to be known as Dr MH, said she decided to stop her housemanship after 14 months of training because the long hours were stressful and there was no work-life balance.

“I was on-call every other day and I realised that even after becoming a medical officer or specialist, the schedule would still be heavy. I didn’t want that kind of lifestyle,” she said.

Dr MH, who is now a medical adviser for a pharmaceutical company, said as a houseman in a training hospital in the Klang Valley then, she worked from 7am to 5pm and would be on-call duty from 6pm to 7am the following morning before continuing with the normal working hours the next day.

“During on-call duty, there are usually patients to attend to. We get little sleep in between and have to wake up at 5am to take blood samples of patients before the senior doctors come in,” she said.

She said her late father was horrified when she resigned and even asked relatives to persuade her to change her mind.

She admitted that her father had wanted her to do medicine although she had wanted to do actuarial science.

“Money was not a factor for leaving the profession even though pharmaceutical companies pay better. I am more satisfied with the stable working hours,” she said.

Asked what advice she would give to students wanting to pursue medicine, she said they must have the passion and good grades because the course was intensive and the work demanding.

“They should not be influenced by their peers or their parents for choosing medicine,” she said.

she already gatal.. 32 years old already no life..

Yg tu pun  nak komplen....just go thru la...in the end hidup akan senang balik.

Cuba tanye yg masuk kadet training 4 thn tu.... sabar je, pas tu commission dah ok.

kadet no need responsible for people's live and death on a daily basis.

imagine working long hours and kena maki coz not being seen as performing at best condition (which might possible affect patients outcome)

She loses her professional title 'Dr' once she no longer in the MMC list and quits practicing.

Yes some doctor even ruin people's life and put them in gaol

I kenot brain this! 32yrs old and still a houseman?

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Monday September 12, 2005

He’s finally a doctor at 64

BY LEE YUK PENG AND PERCY D’CRUZ

MALACCA: It has always been T.S.N. Rathakrishnan's dream to be a doctor. 

He finally achieved his long cherished wish when he graduated from the Melaka Manipal Medical College here – at the age of 64.

many ppl wana be doctor because they feel tat they can study hard, pass the exam n b doctor..

NOT BECAUSE THEY WANA HELP PPL

OMG la.............. dr earns like more than RM15k per month (or maybe more) n cannot stand the workload ?? i was running on 12 hrs shift in my old factory with just RM3200 per month!