mother mother i am sick, call the doctor very quick

for quite a while now, a close friend and i have been discussing about the medical malpractice bill and have taken the opposite sides about it. i was supposed to write about my advocacy that it be enacted into law, but out of respect over my friend, who is about to become a doctor in two or three years tiem, depending on her conviction, i choose not to, but instead i endeavor to write something else about the medical education.

i totally understand the sentiments of some of the doctors and medicine students regarding their meager pay out of practicing the profession. indeed, in the present society, it is an injustice to them, who have spent a good fortune, liesure time, and red blood cells in the med school just to be able to practice the profession. for one, in this present society, they should be, at least, given the chance to recoupe the money they have spent, if not totally earn a living from it.

now, before you react, please dont get me wrong. i have nothing against doctors and med students. i have higgh regard on them, not just because i have a friend who is a med student, but also because i think that medicine is tougher than the course that i am studying, and a lot more noble than the profession i am aspiring to practice someday. but i think that somehow, med schools get it all wrong when they teach to the students that the practice of medical profession is lucrative, or should be lucrative in our local setting.

in the case of cayetano vs monsod, the SC define "profession" as a group of men practicing a common learned knowledge. now, the practice of medicine is a profession, it is a passion for the better understanding of the human anatomy. above all else, the practice of medicine should prioritize social welfare before personal gains, and in this society, med schools should make students embrace the reality that medical profession is not a lucrative practice. one does not enter med school merely out of desire to get rich, but primarily to put into practice every bit of medical knowledge in the pursuit of human well being.

unlike any other profession, particularly the law profession, which is more lucrative and glamorous ( a biased opinion), medicine deals with life as given by God. above all else, doctors should have a sense of nationalism and realization that social welfare comes well ahead of personal gains. social welfare should never be subordinated by personal gains, and thus, the practice of medicine is a public service and should really first be a publc service.

for the record, to avoid super sian-ic violent reaction from my friend, i do not blame this predicament to the doctors and students, but rather to the school system, partly, and the government.