Ministry Of Good Ideas
It’s a worrying trend. Almost every week, there would be a case of a doctor/doctors being censured. It’s usually due to the over-prescription of addictive drugs. Sometimes, it gets more “exotic” like passing off as a plastic surgeon when you’re are really a GP. It’s just the beginning of 2010 and the axes are already grinding. Bring in the lawyers and we’ll all smell blood. And the public will love it at first.
Then, they’re going to find their doctors becoming less “flexible” with prescriptions and MCs. Charges are likely to go up if the risks of getting sued or suspended see a upward trend and professional indemnity costs more.
Cost more? No way. There is only one thing that can cost more in Singapore. And if the Ministry Of Good Ideas rakes me in with a salary of $1M a year, I would gladly sabo my medical colleagues with some bright ideas and brilliant policies which will keep the public very happy.
Like I said, there is only one thing that can cost more in Singapore. It’s better to have a lion lead a herd of sheep than to have a sheep lead a pride of lions. Of course! Who is going to lead if the lions eat up their sheepish leader? If citizens are not like sheep, how are the lions ever going to grow fat? Oops! I digress. My job in the Ministry of Good Ideas is to make sure that only one thing goes up and everything else must be better and cost less. So how do we rein in the poor and desperate doctors? How do we satisfy a public that keeps thinking that the doctors earn too much? I have an idea. Let’s go to Haiti.
In the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake, there are bound to be starving survivors dying to leave this sea of decomposing dead bodies in search of a more pleasant environment. How about Singapore? To date, we have not sent anybody down there to distribute aid and supplies. Why not do something better? Why not absorb Haitian doctors and make them citizens? After that 7.0 shock, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind working from 5am to 10pm for a loaf of bread and a couple of bananas. Yes! That’s the kind of citizens we need. Hardworking and hungry. Our local doctors had better stand on their toes and put some spurs on their behinds.
Oh! And make sure the psychiatrists don’t have any weapons within easy reach.
