We Should Have Gone to Med School

These was the sentiments shared by my college buddies who are now proud parents during our last monthly meet at Jack's Loft in Eastwood City. I had no idea that going for your child's check-up would cost around 500 pesos exclusive of vaccination or any prescription that may come out of it. Imagine if each doctor would at least have 10 patients a day that would be 5,000 pesos and that covers only the consultation fees.

So I can't imagine why are best doctors are trying their luck in the US or UK as nurses, when they can earn as much as 5,000 pesos a day. They are complaining that the pay in the Philippines is not that good compared with first world countries. Now I wonder how they answered the question when these doctors were still kids when asked why they wanted to be a doctor. Was their answer even remotely related to the financial rewards one gets for being a doctor? Or was it they wanted to be doctors to help cure the sick?

Maybe along the way helping cure the sick became second to earning mucho dinero for these doctors.

I saw on one TV show doctors who have to walk several kilometers just to reach the indigenous tribes of the Philippines who they know can't pay them much and still care for them. These people can only pay them with some of their harvest like fruits and vegetables and yet these doctors would go to these far-flung areas just to fulfill their oath.