Transformers, M.D.

Choosing your lifetime career is a commitment itself, and pursuing it is a battle. When you become that career-person you have been dreaming of, it feels so fulfilling, and you would consider the battle worthwhile. Aspirants of becoming a doctor of medicine undergo long years of study and hardship even from their pre-medicine courses. It may take a minimum of eight years before being proclaimed as one of the legitimate doctors or physicians in the country. However, because of the economic instability of the Philippines, only a few of the physicians and specialists feel satisfied with the money they bring home from work. Furthermore, not all doctors are in practice, public or private. This, probably, is because of rampant need of nurses. Another is not all people could afford to pay even a check-up fee. Though these doctors could help impoverished communities through medical mission, they are still governed by the fact that labor become more productive through wages.

With the flimsy chance of receiving higher salary through public or even private practice, doctors become modern-day real-life transformers, who seek for greener pastures overseas. Though they have to enroll to another course a little different from the current one, these professionals are willing to take risks and give up their titles as M.D. to be among those R.N.'s. Maybe, they were thinking, "At least i could provide my family's needs for the economy of the Philippines fluctuate along with its population rate increase". Salary is the primary reason for such transformation. Another is some counties offer more conducive place for practice. As what a speaker in a seminar shared to his audience, "in America, when you dial 911, you will immediately be given attention anytime of the day and whatever place you may be. So if I would experience heart attack, I know I would be brought to the hospital as soon as possible. Unlike in the Philippines..."

Debbie B. Pellosis