He said Dua, I say Diu!

The godfather of medicine Health Minister, Latok Chua announced yesterday that newly graduated medical doctors will have to undergo TWO years of hell-holeship housemanship compared to the previous one year! What pissed my willy off is that the salary will still be the same for the entire 2 years.

Today's paper said that those bargers will seek to promote doctors to the U43 Grade only AFTER housemanship. You and I know what "will seek" means in Malaysian context! In other words, for the first 2 years of fresh graduates' life, we need to eat shit to survive. They claimed the consolation for prolonging the housemanship for another year is that we can enjoy a RM500 pay raise (upon approval of "will seek") and be allowed to pursue further studies right after housemanship. Be realistic lah, we often hear stories in the past that people got into a postgrad program as early as during HO (the rule was 3 yrs after completing houseman). Why still need to "will seek this" and "will seek that" when you have confirmed the duration of housemanship? Just blardy confirm the salary lah! We are ready to give and take if the deal is right, don't make it so arbitrary ok latok?!

Footnote: Sigh... there goes my 4-year plan of replacing Latok Chua! Niamah...