My Thoughts on Doctors
WANICH CHAROONGKIJANAN*
Affiliation : *Columnist, Matichon Weekly, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
I always have good feelings toward doctors,
like others. Although some doctors may be thieves,
killers or cold-blooded persons, Thais generally
don't think of doctors generally as thieves or some
sort of bloodsucking vampires. (But sucking money
is something else again!)
A doctor is thought of as the merciful one
or the one who cures the unbearable pain or the one
who helps the patient to be as strong as before. No
one thinks that he is going to die from seeing the
doctor but to rather that he will insure his survival.
(Although many times, the patients do die.!!)
When my kid registered for her university
entrance examination, she consulted her mom, a
university lecturer, as to what faculty she should
apply for. I didn't worry as she was a good student
but when I was asked one day, I replied to her to
choose any faculty she liked but not the medical
faculty for three simple reasons. First, it was diffi-
cult to obtain entrance; second, difficult while study-
ing and third, difficult later on while working. It
was just my feeling, nothing more than that. If she
saw it differently. I didn't mind for it was her deci-
sion. Anyway, she decided to be a dentist. I felt
relieved because I have never heard of a dentist
making his patient dead or crippled!!
Keywords : Ethics, Doctors
