Charles Santiago believes public clinics and hospitals will reduce dispensing of drugs from three months’ worth to one month, then two weeks, forcing extra visits and travel costs for patients.
The Healthcare Work Culture Improvement Task Force, chaired by ex-MOSTI sec-gen Siti Hamisah Tapsir, comprises 8 other members, including ex-CIMB human resource head Hamidah Naziadin.
Senior doctors (senior house officers or medical officers) order junior doctors around to do favours for them, be it patient-related or personal. The newbies don’t dare to say no.
Our colleagues reminisce about their experience as some sort of struggle they have gone through and so should our juniors; I wonder if this is Stockholm syndrome.