I am not fond Canadian family doctors at all. Because Canada wants to provide public health care for everyone and private health care for the (slightly) rich, the entire system is screwed up. As a result, regular family doctors perform very poorly as professionals. Here is a generic class of a doctor and a Canadian family doctor, in pseudo OOP language.
Not all doctors are like this, but some unfortunate ones I’ve met are.
Doctor
class Doctor {
var degreeOfEducation;
function Doctor (determination) {
if(determination == "strong") {
degreeOfEducation = 1;
startBusiness();
} else {
degreeOfEducation = 0;
exit();
}
}
private function startBusiness () {}
}
So far so good.
Canadian Family Doctor
class CanadianFamilyDoctor extends Doctor {
var fund;
var salary;
function CanadianFamilyDoctor () {
super();
degreeOfEducation = 0;
}
function startBusiness () {
fund = Government.borrowMoney(INFINITY);
City.openBusiness(this, fund);
while (1) {
salary = Government.borrowMoney(9999999);
Sleep("one year");
}
}
function bookAppointment (dayOfWeek) {
if ((dayOfWeek >= 1) && (dayOfWeek <= 7)) {
if (isSummer) {
this.onVacation();
} else {
this.currentlyFull();
}
return 0;
} else if (dayOfWeek == null) {
return (date() + rand() * 30 + 5);
}
}
function appointment (symptom) (
if ((symptom == "running nose")) {
informPatient("You have a cold, here.");
chickenScratch("Tylenol");
} else {
informPatient("Here.");
chickenScratch("L$d7@doFD#");
}
if (symptom == complaint || symptom == nonstop) {
referToSpecialist();
}
collectMoney();
}
function referToSpecialist () (
printf("Phone number: %s-%s",
floor(rand()*999),
floor(rand()*9999));
}
}
And if you noticed, srand() is nowhere found in the code.
Hahaha. Cool implementation of OOP.
I suppose that the reason people go for medical courses. Easy work, high pay. It’s the same case here in Malaysia.
That’s so unfair to (us) Engineers :(
Here, they (doctors) will have to spend extra years in school, and also a few years in government hospital. I suppose that’s the same case in Canada. By the time they earn big money, engineers MIGHT be making more money already. So, be sure you spend you time wisely, since you have will be in the market a few years earlier than them.
Yeah the same is mostly true for doctors here. Although they do not have to work in a government hospital, most of them will have to spend some time as an assistant for an experienced doctor.
Haha… beautiful!