Sunday, November 28, 2010

Life of a Houseman in GH in 2010

Can't believe it but it's true, there are just too many houseman around who got nothing to do. How are they going to be trained and function as a capable doctor later?


Saturday November 27, 2010

Time even for a movie during work

PETALING JAYA: Some housemen in a Klang Valley hospital have so little work that they can even catch a movie during their shift, claimed a medical officer, who declined to be named.

“It was because they knew that the medical officers (senior doctors) would just do the work instead,” she said yesterday.

She added that some specialists and heads of department were reluctant to give more work to housemen.

However, the doctor said she received adequate experience when she did her housemanship at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor.

Another doctor, who had recently completed his housemanship at the same hospital, said his peers in the Klang Valley also said they were not given enough responsibilities.

“Since the beginning of my housemanship and until the time I left two months ago, the housemen in the hospital where I was trained, had sufficient training on the job,” he said.

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