It has been a year since I graduated and been working in different rotations in different departments. Different jobs in different work conditions, and frankly you have to compare and contrast what you are doing with your close friends and see how other people are doing.
Being a doctor is great. I couldn’t emphasize this enough. However, I want just to mention the setbacks of it in this post.
Working in Kuwait is another issue. Basically what I’ve found most people amazed by is that as a doctor you don’t have your own office, you stand on your feet most of the day, you fight with co-workers to get things done, you don’t have the tea boy bringing you french coffee at the morning, the cafeteria suck major balls. you spend KD100-200 on deliveries and coffee orders.
Being on-call (Sleep at the hospital in disgusting room) every 4th night plus fighting for the key as there aren’t enough rooms to stay in.
Being hated by other team workers once you mention a vacation or a leave to finish up some work.
You aint a respectable doctor until you enroll in a speciality program a.k.a 7 years of further studying, exams and stress.
You don’t have your own parking as a junior doctor.
Most of the rants all non-patient related as you see. It’s mainly the work place and the system that bothers me.
Due to this conditions I know few doctors that chose their specialities and post graduate training not according to their interests, but according to the work place that they can be in. Some go to hospital management in American university of Beirut, some stay paused in their specialties for 3-5 years until they get a post in a nice country to continue their studies and the majority go to the happy place called family medicine clinics.
