Private or Government

There are some pro and cons of either one. Some of them said, private practise gives a lot more return of money into your pocket whereas government practisce only gives small return of money into your pocket. As for me, money is not everything. There must be a balance between your income and job satisfaction. For me, job satisfaction is the most important. I must have time for the job and also for my family. This is my own opinion. Others may differ. In private practise, it will be busy most of the time. You have to work hard to get all the money. Sometimes you have to sacifice using mediocre equipments. This is because private hospital needs profits to run. You won't get high end equipment most of the time. This is not true all the time. If your hospital is very busy and you get a lot of patients, they will get a lot of money to buy high end equipments. One of my colleague in private practise managed to get a 64 slice CT scan with PACS installed recently. He went for training in the USA for the 64 slice CT scan. So currently, his equipment are much better than the current hospital i am working. So where do we go now?

Private Practise

My third day at locum today. Quite ok and sometimes boring. Luckily there is an internet connection around. So this is where I blog. After being very familiar with multiclice CT scan, 1.5T MRI, digital fluoroscopy and high end ultrasound, doing locum is something like learning to use old machines. This hospital only have 0.2T MRI, non helical CT scan, non digital fluoroscopy and medium end ultrasound. I have to retrained my eyes using these machines. Some of the images are horrible. This is the second learning process for me. During my training, i have been using PACS all the way. It was very easy since all the images whether from current or previous examination are on your fingertips. The first learning process is when i finished my training. The current hospital which i am working has no PACS. Even with high end machines around, we still have to depend on printed films for reporting. The good thing is still the images are still very good.

New Blogging

It have been more than 6 months since i last blog. Now creating a new site and thinking what to write. Will try to blog mainly from my Treo 600. Not very sure to use Vagablog or Ublog. Will try using both see from thereone. Tapping off.