Nocturnale

I was pushed to the extreme of lividity yesterday when one of the junior medical officer shirked her duty by failing to turn up for (on-call) work. It is apparent her fecklessness and penchant for averting responsibility knows no bounds. From the outset, she has been showing very sinister attitudes towards her work and a devotee to the cause of AWOL. The deplorable thing about it is that no serious action has been taken against her with the chiefs and directors whitewashing or worse turning a blind eye in order to safeguard their petty interest in the hierarchy.

I brood in anger knowing there will never be real justice served given the inept management of this country’s pathetic health care administration. Good-for-nothing, worthless medical officers or house officers roam rampantly in the ranks rotting the already wobbly scaffolds of medical integrity and excellence. The bad apples all but wallow in the shelter of relative impunity and continue their acts of insolence, leaving the few good men and women to crusade with flaming torches, to deliver quality clinical care with an unflinching rectitude.

I am furious also because things are likely to remain unchanged for many decades to come. The whole health care delivery poised to be dispensed by a gang of slothful dimwits. Is this what Malaysian medicine has come to represent? A depravity to which we all sink?