Housemanship: A Disgruntled Parent
8:13 AM
DEAR
Pengarah,
We would like to draw your attention to the
above subject. Housemans are HUMAN LIKE YOU AND NOT SLAVE MEANT TO BE
"KILLED AND BULLIED"; PARTICULARLY IN XXXX hospital. For every
posting, they are treated worst than slave, ask to work from 6am till 10-11.00 pm
non stop especially in certain wards throughout their housemanships. No sundays
and public holidays continuosly for around two weeks non- stop even without
lunch and dinner break. Just skipping in between time of rest. Only coming back
home middle of the night. After bathing and cleaning themselves with painful
legs and blister toes and feet, its almost 1p.m. Sleeping just merely for 3-4
hours, the next day without mercy and cruelty to meet the dirctive, ask them to
repeat the routine continuosly for around 2 weeks.
You
department want to "kill" your own staff until they break down? Why
are you people so cruel and without mercy. Are you people still have human
heart? or you people these young doctors as robot directing them at your whim
and fancy in the name of public responsibility and accountability to perfect
the health of every patients and make them live forever and sacrificing and
killing the live of houseman!
Why are
you people in authority so cruel, inhuman and unmerciful in discharging your
authority bullying the young professionals like this. Your lame excuse is your
department is under staff or giving them training them to be tuff and
independent. Are you telling me that 8-10hrs of working is insufficient. Let me
tell you, even if you ask them to work for 24 hours a day and 365days a year
will never ever be enough.
Common,
be human, dont be unemphatical with others and act like "devil" in
the name of providing good healthcare services to the public. Be merciful and
considerate to others. You people have taken away their weekend and public
holidays and proper rest. Do know how much agony and pain have you done to
their lives. Many have quit and even cry almost every night causing so much
pain, stress and tension. Are you telling me that life as a doctor? No,No.
Its the
system you are praticing and how you execute them.Are you saying if yiou cant
stand, quit, is it? You do first and we follow, that my challenge. You know how
much time, sacrifices, finances etc have we pour in? You people are in health
department, taking care of people health and wellbeing. We need enough rest,
holidays and proper meal. These are the things you people teach to the public,
right? Where is your own etiquette for you own staf. They are your scarifice
offering to uphold your department.right?
What,s
a shame and cruel and inhumane department. You better change your department to
"Jabatan Kesesatan' WHERE all your healthcare is channel only to the
public and deprive your "own" staff health and life. We, as parents
condemn strongly your current practices of asking your houseman to work like
slave and robot without allowing them proper lunch,dinner and night rest. They
are not working robot but human who need proper rest and conducive working
environment. Go and Check XXXX hospital and see if you can catch the
"devil behind" who implement and execute and practice this system.
Teach
health to your own staff first before you teach health to the public. Otherwise
We parents hold you and your department responsible for the wellbeing of our children.
Thank you. We hope we stop here and not proceeding to the media and so on.
I got this letter off FB a few weeks back. Apparently a
parent sent this letter to the Hospital Director. I copied and pasted it as a
whole. I only altered the XXXX at the hospital name. When I first read this, I
thought to myself…..I thought my ENGRISSH was bad, but this is much more badder
(worse)!
Anyways, I am unable to verify the exact origins of this
letter, whether it was really written by a disgruntled parent or just a HO with
too much time in their hand.
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| ...unfortunately I can't have one of these at the ward. |
Housemanship WAS terrible. The long hours on call. The
constant fear of getting extended in a posting. The multitasking. The screams
and shouts from superiors. H.O meant
HAMBA ORANG. The treatment of HO has
been like this since the “DURING MY TIMEs”. There are certain aspects in the
training that has to be fine tuned and adjusted as it is not perfect at all. I
personally feel that extending the working hours from 60 hours to 75 hours per
week won’t do much good as it is not the working hours that are lacking but
proper training.
Looking back, I think my housemanship was a great
experience. You may be treated like rubbish sometimes, but as you work your way
up and get better in what you do the superiors will treat you better. I learned
a lot during my housemanship. You will never know how to prioritize work during
medical school. It is during HOship that I learned how to prioritize my work
such as which patients that need to be attended to first. Which procedures are more
important. The more time spent on the job, better decision will be made in the future....even at the worst circumstances.
I have seen some juniors absconding from work after just 3
days of tagging. I think that is “natural selection”. If you can’t deal with HOship, the medical
profession is really NOT for you. Better quit earlier on than becoming an
MOfrust menonggeng.
For parents out there, please don’t interfere too much on
your child’s work. It is good that you are concerned but there are other ways
to show your concern such as visiting them often and providing encouragement.
By sending letters like this to the authorities it just shows that your child
lacks the confidence and can’t face the world. Before you enroll your child in
medical school, do let them know regarding the realities of life. Just because
a child scores good result, doesn’t mean that the child is “DOCTOR” material.
It takes more than just grades. This
harsh training makes a doctor stronger and able to face all sorts of obstacles
throughout their career.
I am proud to say I COMPLETED MY HOUSEMANSHIP……at HOSPITAL
TAIPING!
9 comments
hi u dah MO eh. after HO if kita nak cuti setahun b4 MO boleh ker?
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ReplyDeleteHaha! I gone through my HOship in the same hospital. Not too bad. In medical posting I was the only HO in charge of 2 wards of 100 patients at one time.
ReplyDeleteO, Mummies, so sorry for your little babies who have had so much pains. But when you show that to them, they will start softening all inside. By the end of 2 years you have done them the disservice of not allowing them to blossom into realistic and competent clinician. You should have not allowed them to go into medicine.
ReplyDeletebanyak lemak. sekarang dah berlambak ho dah boleh buat shift pun komplen? time aku dulu kalau dapat 6 orang ho satu department pun kira luxury.
ReplyDeletestupid parents!
ReplyDeletewhy on earth took up medicine ?
stupid stupid stupid!!!
if your child complaits, just quit and sell bananas!!!!
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ReplyDeletehey how's HOship in Taiping Hosp? =)
ReplyDeleteAhh... I hope I could do my prp at hospital taiping
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