Many Malaysians are now pursuing medicine due to the perceived good life that they will have in the future, i.e. moving to private sector where they will earn big bucks. Eventhough the situation in the public hospitals are overwhelming, they always convince themselves that once they join the private sector, they will lead a comfortable life raking in big money.

My question I would like to post is, does anyone know how much these specialists can earn in private, like say KPJ or Pantai hospitals? Some say more than RM100k a month, some say reaching RM40k is also considered good. So let's have a discussion on this so that we would have future doctors who enter the profession for passion, not just money per se. Appreciate any input that you guys might have! Thanks

Leaving MOH for money is an obvious choice. Few stay due to job satisfaction in MOH as fussy and difficult patient is more common in private compared to gomen. U can treat patient on what is right, not what the customer / patient wants. U have many subordinates eg. Housemen, medical officers, junior specialist at your beck and call while in private, you are on your own. You deserve to be paid more.
I know surgeons who does only few cases a week MO level cases and earn 50-200k/ mth while consultants in MOH doing few complex cases per day with 4 operating days per week and stuck at earning 15-20k/mth. Gomen are service oriented and not on case basis salaries while private surgeons draw their payment from each cases. You want gomen docs to earn more? Than vote to increase the current rm1-rm5 registration rate to something more lucrative.