Mr Liak Teng Lit, CEO of Alexandra Hospital and the coming Khoo Teck Puat Hospital was reported as saying "....All things being equal, if you are grossly obese, we won't promote you."
Perhaps Mr Liak should also penalize those who can't pass their IPPT (Individual Physical Proficiency Test). Not to mention the elderly, myopes, diabetics and hypertensives as well.
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That's why it is good for non doctors like Mr Khaw Boon Wan and Mr Lit to lead healthcare organisations
U need leadership and judgement which is obviously lacking in most doctors.
They are time tellers who are too specialised to be of any use in business builder but Mr Khaw and Mr Lit are clock builders who ensure that healthcare system and hospitals will become better over time.
Walk the talk
Say no to fat and unhealthy doctors and nurses.
All obese medical students and nursing students should be counselled and if they dont improve, all else being equal, they will not graduate :)
Yes, then we wouldn't have had to work with mediocre doctors like this guy here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chao_Tzee_Cheng
he is a pathologist not a dr lah
his patients are obviously less healthy than him
faint
I am a current medical student overseas. I have a neuro disease that causes peripheral myopathy. (the muscles in my legs are wasted and my hands are numb.)
Obviously I can't run, jump, sprint, play games and it's a huge struggle for me to lose weight.
I am not that fat actually, just have a little tummy.
not everyone is fit, healthy, PES A, and can lose weight if they just put their mind to it. There are certain factors, like recent research that links obesity with genetics.
yup
so all else being equal
we wont promote u. period
U have to work harder than your peers to be promoted in future.
Unfortunate. Another stupid policy that deters me from returning.
What about smokers?
I think the CEO has a point. But ideally it should be something that is relevant to the work that the healthcare worker does.
For example a doctor seeing patients in a weight loss clinic should not be obese. It sends a wrong message.
It is also debatable whether doctors with bad complexion can ever be good dermatologists.
What about a doctor who walks with a limp but is an orthopedic specialist? I know one who walks with a walking aid.
It is interesting that when you think about the whole "healthcare" system we have, it has very little to do with doctors making people healthy.
It has more to do with doctors seeing people who are sick and suffering and making them not sick and relieving their suffering.
We don't discharge patients when they are healthy. We discharge them when they are no longer sick.
There is a huge difference between being not sick and being healthy.
Hence whether or not being obese impairs a doctor's performance is open to debate.
"What about a doctor who walks with a limp but is an orthopedic specialist?"
If there are only two barbers in town, go to the one with the bad haircut.
is the first anon a doctor?
Does it matter whether the first anon is a doctor or not?
He is absolutely correct that doctors are too specialized and lack the necessary skills in finance, HR, business organisation.
We need non doctors to lead so that they can build a system.
Doctors should just see patients and not do admin.
There are a lot of doctors who switch to admin and occupy high position which is demoralizing for a lot of non doctors.
Then they mess up and we non drs have to clear their mess.
All else being equal, non drs should lead drs and not the other way around
Excellent idea.
We should get Navy Admirals to be leaders of pilots in the airforce!
All this talk elevating administrators on pedestals gets me sick.
While we can acknowledge that we all need each other in some way to make things run smoothly ( the key word is smoothly), what do you call your industry that you "lead" and "run" if you have absolutely no doctors?
I think it is clear which personnel should be the most important in the health care industry. It is perhaps the administrators deluded sense of self grandeur that is causing so many of the problems in healthcare today.
The biggest problem is that doctors dont respect administrators and always threaten to leave the public hospitals.
Luckily, this is changing as our far sighted minister has approved recruitment of foreign doctors to replace those who disrupt the public healthcare sector.
Foreign doctors with conditional registration are easier to control and they respect administrators more than local doctors.
I think drs are deluded and think they are unreplaceable.
Maybe true in the past, but now things are changing.
Let drs treat patients and we administrators lead them in improving the public healthcare.
If u want to be an administrator, dont study medicine and waste your medical training.
anon: is it easy to recruit those singaporean and malaysian medical and nursing students in the UK and australia? don't you know that Australia has made it very easy for ex overseas medical and nursing students to get a PR?
you must work harder to fight with Miss Roxon kakis who are throwing $$$$ into the Aussie health care system.
To the anon person who is constantly singing the unfettered praises of overpaid politicians and spouting brickbats of underpaid healthcare workers...
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