23/07/2024
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Doctor’s day message from Padma Bhushan Dr TS Kler, Senior Cardiologist, Gurugram
Dear doctor Friends ,
This is my personal communication to all of you on DOCTOR’S day & wud request you to read it completely before rejecting or accepting it .
What I have realised ( very late in my life ) that I have committed many blunders in my professional life like
Working 14 hours a day , competing with my collegues for numbers, neglecting my own health , neglecting my family & true friends bcz I did not have time
As a matter of fact Everybody has only 16-17 hours of wake hours & How you spend them is your decision !!
Most of us don’t learn good time management & waste time in nonproductive things . Mind you enjoying life is NOT wasting time rather it is sadupyog of ur time
We see our per month remuneration which is wrong , we shud see our per hour compensation . A doctor who gets Rs 10 lakhs for working 12 hours a day is poorer than a doctor who gets Rs 5 lakhs for working 4 hours a day & gets much more time to enjoy life. We feel very proud & have inflated ego if we do so many procedures & go late home at 10 pm or so .Actually it is a Ego trap & one shud not get affected by it
Most imp thing in life is not to amass money , more imp is to be happy & enjoy life , whatever way you like
So plz don’t get trapped by corporate culture & Ego & make fool of yourself as me & many of my generation doctors have done .
My suggestions esp to younger generation is
1) don’t work hard but work smartly
2) Make groups & teams , don’t work as individuals . Working as team will increase productivity , lessen stress & gives u better negotiation power with any hospital management & even will improve patient care
3) Take emergency call by turns . On routine days NO patient or his/ her relative shud be allowed to call you after 6 pm
4) Don’t answer whatsapp quiries by patients . If you want to answer then take ur fee , don’t burn urself free of cost . These patients won’t stand by you in ur trouble , only ur family & sincere friends will ,if you are lucky to have one or two .
5) don’t bother if your patient goes to some other doctor, consider he is unlucky & does not deserve you !!
6) Don’t work after 6/7 pm
7) Doctors shud not work on saturday afternoon & sundays
( Western doctors work only from Monday to 5 pm on Friday & they are ahead of us in everyway )
😎 No professional meetings shud be kept on sundays .
9) Few days holidays every 3-4 months are very rejuvinating
10) Finally remember DAILY that we ALL are going to die one day , leaving everything behind , so no point becomig Victims of rat race.
“PLEASE DO GIVE A THOUGHT“
I have written this mail bcz I did not have wisdom & no body senior or junior guided me . I really wish that all doctors, seniors & juniors shud have better quality of personal & professional life .
Your Perpetual Well Wisher
~ Dr T S Kler( New Delhi )