Comments on: Is Your Doctor Happy or Burnt-Out?

By: leopoldo

leopoldo — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:10:42 +0000

Whatever nationality a doctor is, he is a human being, he still gets burnt-out. Doctors should get good rest to avoid anything worse that could happen especially in operations.

By: Go Lees

Go Lees — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:22:36 +0000

In the US, the doctors have created a monopoly with the insurance, pharma and the healthcare institutions re. medical care. Instead of evangelizing life style changes and simple, natural foods, we are rammed down our throats with disinformation in the media (TV, print etc) – the message being – medical drugs resolve all diseases. New names are invented every week and the TV infomercials relentlessly beguile the uninformed public. With models posing as patients, the public is being brainwashed with the message that the cure for all diseases is the “magic pill”. The sole objective: Huge profits for the health care industry.
The media, TV, advertisers, pharma, healthcare, AMA and the government (Senators/Reps) are all complicit in this disinformation. Until we get a responsible set of politicians who espouse the truth, the public is doomed to suffer under this hegemony.

By: April

April — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:46:32 +0000

Doctors are normal people, they do get stressed and tired just like everyone else, however they try to fight it by taking lots of vitamins, exercise and avoiding any vices, if they can help it. Most of the doctors I know are quite physically fit and health buffs. First of all, they should be living examples of good health since they are doctors. People go to them to seek medical care and professional advice.

By: zeeshan

zeeshan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:44:07 +0000

i do not know which Australlia you are talking abiuy. My impression about this country is that the doctors are very well paid and patients get best treatment. I am placed at Pakistan . such problems i thought are onily in our fate but now my thinking is changed

By: Lab Rat

Lab Rat — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:32:34 +0000

Especially in early-career medicine, being a doctor seems to involve long hours, hectic work schedules and make both physical and emotional demands on a sleep-deprived body. Certainly the doctors (and formally medic students) in my group of friends are the ones that work the hardest, and always seem the most exhasted.

By: ST

ST — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:30:09 +0000

In Australia, doctors worked 14 hrs a day, there’s no much of bed in hospitals and we’re in such a poor state in medical terms where patients are sent back if it’s not a serious problem.

By: meso

meso — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:28:22 +0000

That’s a scary thought. I wouldn’t want any mistakes done by any doc…..really can’t imagine the aftermath….geez..

By: PB

PB — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:27:04 +0000

Most of the doc here in Aust are working longer hours then the normal doc in other countries….poor them.