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Originally Posted by Cogito Ergo Sum
No doubt, Daisy, it is illogical after so much hard work and struggle in pursuing MBBS if one chooses to go for CSS afterwards. That's the whole point. You answered your question yourself.
How can such intelligent, bright minds be so illogical? The logic is to be found on the roads where we (doctors) can be seen almost on a daily basis demanding what we think are our natural rights. Doctors in Pakistan (especially the young doctors) have:-
-only a fraction of earning as compared to the doctors of the same age working elsewhere
-no service structure
-qualitatively and quantitatively inadequate specialist training opportunities
-the most unsafe work environments
-inhumane duty hours
-no public sympathy and awareness to support them in their fair demands
In this scenario, a young doctor only has three options after graduation:-
1) Leave Pakistan
2) CSS
3) Accept fate and join Pakistani system and develop a habit of sitting on the road every second day
I had 80 boys in my class of 300 students, in a reputed government medical college. 30 of them have gone abroad already (USA, UK, Middle East). 20 more are in the process. The rest were either short of resources or had family issues, so they stayed behind. Some of them (like me) decided to attempt CSS so that we could stay in the country and have some dignity at the same time. The remainder are working and suffering in the hospitals.  |
Well situation is sad and Adil Ashfaq has rightly pointed out that its more or less same in most of the fields because we live in a developing country and hopefully things will get better with the passage of time.
But this mention of doctors' protests etc. has touched my sore place over which i was so gloomy these days so let me express that I dont oppose their demands but whats more wretched are painful deaths of innocent patients because of these strikes etc..... I mean what can be more precious than a person's life.......??? I know they go on strike because nobody listen to them in other way and unfortunately strikes and sit in protests have become the right way to solve any issue in our country but will they do the same if (God forbid) some member of their own family is lying in critical condition in the same hospital? It was heartbreaking to hear about expiry of 10 patients recently in Karachi when doctors were sitting on roads. Can they imagine the level of pain and helplessness of those people who lost their loved ones in all this matter..... How can such merciless doctors be successful in their motives when they have earned the sobs of so many families.... And sorry to say atleast i dont feel any sympathy for these doctors in "this" situation. They should be humans first and doctors later. There can be some other way.... There should be...... Its not impossible..... But getting your goals at the cost of human lives and pressurizing government using these tactics is totally ruthless and intolerable!
Coming back to topic, i think its not a good solution to quit the field. I remember the words of an ASP who said that he wants to join the Police because this field is notorious for many reasons and Problems in a system can be solved only by jumping in the system, not by skipping them.. Ofcourse its not easy, but some day some one will have to take first step with positive intentions.