Crimson Bisque

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Nauseating.. that's exactly how my day has been... never before have i been so utterly disgusted with a person. My stomach lurched at the thought of his deed and yes! I ACTUALLY felt like purging....

There was this maid who came to the clinic and she was crying and all... she had just come into S'pore to work... she didn't have any money and her salary was being held by the maid agency. Her employer REFUSED to pay for her medical fees but "kindly" lent her $100... in fact the maid came to the clinic behind her employer's back.... ok so this is a desperate girl at her wits end right? I mean the bigger the bill the more she owes her employer...

And here we have our "fine" doctor who despite being informed of her situation, promptly charges her $80 for consultation! How many months does she have to work to pay her employer back? When i saw the charges, I felt very ill indeed.. does he not have a shread of humanity in him? When my supervisor went to talk to him AGAIN... he acted dumb and said "so how?"... my supervisor just had to tell him to lower the consult charges... my stomach felt worse upon hearing this... the cold-hearted, materialistic little bast***... how COULD he do this to the poor girl? The other doctor would have waived his consultation so she would only have to pay for the medicine! I am utterly disgusted at his behaviour.. the poor woman was in tears ok? TEARS? the man ISN'T worthy to be called one! Man is supposed to be the superior being because of our ability to reason... and because of all the emotions that we experience... without all this... are we no better than animals?

This is not the 1st time he has displayed such acts of deceit. To put it bluntly, he's been pilfering the clinic's money... i would know... i charge everything in....
For any procedure done on the patient.. the patient has to pay a facility fee and a professional fee.... the facility fee goes to the hospital and the prof fee to the doctor... but this sad excuse for a person just lumps the ENTIRE FEE for the procedure under CONSULTATION, i.e. he gets ALL the money.... which leaves the hospital nothing... and i know for a fact that this is probably one of the reasons why my ENTIRE clinic did not receive any bonus this year.

That's another thing to gripe abt... I mean HELLO?! Profit-sharing in the form of bonuses are given in proportion to how much each clinic makes for the hospital... ok that makes sense right? but they DO NOT base it on performance AT ALL... so if you work the hardest and you don't make any profit in your clinic you get diddly squat! The whole place is all about the money!

The next thing to gripe about... this exec in my office... she just asked me to go into her room one day and told me to help her with her filing... and get this it's not a small pile ok.. it's a HUGE pile of paper that i get stuck with....
1. this is ENTIRELY out of my job scope
2. it goes BEYOND a personal favour.. a small stack of paper i don't mind... but with THAT stack? I have my clinic duties too you know! she's really pushed it too far this time i feel... it's probably cos i'm leaving soon and she needs someone to do her filing for her...
I'm quite upset by this though... she's asked me to do many things before this... well she's actually quite a nice person and when the clinic was more empty i didn't mind.. but now.. the clinic is so busy! Yes business is back, with a vengence! But despite it all, I've always felt uneasy doing things for her before... cos they were actually rather simple things to do... just felt that she was being lazy and trying to push these very miniscule jobs to me which she could have very well and very quickly done herself...
And now THIS?! i'm not her personal assistant ok!

I realise it's very difficult to draw the line between job scope and personal favours... but this time i feel like she's taking advantage of me... in short i really feel like crap... G.R.E.A.T. Now i just feel more nauseous thinking abt it... hopefully a night's sleep will help... sigh..

I can't believe this is happening to me on my last week at work! I don't want to have any bad blood between me and my soon-to-be-ex-colleagues...

sick and tired of being nauseous...
charlotte

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