Monday, December 15, 2008

Risk

I do not wish to elaborate on the potential risk of having a doctor with (active) psychiatric disease. It was, however, argued - by certain extra terrestrials, of course - that it would be safe if these problem graduates do not take care of real patients.

They mean radiologists or pathologists or microbiologists.

Hold on. Are you really at ease to have a radiologist who keeps having funny visual hallucination, or a pathologist who locks himself (with all the specimens and slides that need urgent comment) in his office for several days ?

(Oh, there are already some existing ones at the moment - probably because of a different cerebral pathology. That's another story.)

In that case these graduates should not even become involved in all aspects of clinical care. Then, what's left ?

Maybe health administrators in the headquarters.

Oh, maybe many did already.

PS. You may well complaint I have discrimination. But, while putting up this fully justified accusation, I would politely ask you and your family to be cared by a schizophrenic doctor next time when you have to see one.

May god bless you.

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