Greedy

A few days later, I had another opportunity to dine with another group of consultants who help teaching our final year students. Since many of them are also holding important administrative positions in the Hospital Authority and are involved in the employment interview, it seems natural they all agreed it’s difficult to recruit new trainees.

“We shouldn’t worry that much.” One of them said, “Both medical schools just increased their quota. A few years later we shall see many more graduates and there will be no need to worry about shortage of manpower.”

“Very true, especially when youngsters realize after the financial tsunami that banking are not all that easy to make big money,” another consultant nodded, “When I talk to my friends who teach finance or business in both universities, they all agree that it is now very difficult for their faculty to recruit good secondary school graduates. Young people now seems to appreciate once again there is a good prospect to choose the second oldest occupation in the history!”

“From the point of view of our healthcare system, it sounds good news. We shall have more top students becoming doctors in the future.” A few of us concluded at the same time.

“Not necessarily,” LY – our professor of hepatology – smiled, “It may simply mean that there will be a large number of greedy people, who should go for finance and business, end up doing medicine!”

I was horrified.