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Tuesday, Jul 04, 2006

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Doctor is god

Though engineers get lucrative jobs, they never command the respect doctors do. Doctors are considered next only to god. Though initially they get low salaries they overtake engineers once they settle down, say in eight to nine years.

What we see now is boom time for the software field. Once it achieves the saturation level, the industry will be plagued by problems of retrenchment, voluntary retirement, etc. In medicine, there can be no saturation point.

V. Pandy,
Tuticorin, T.N.

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Medicine, generally unattractive compared to engineering, does have its silver lining. Anaesthesiology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, pathology, and non-clinical fields are still areas that require trained doctors here and abroad.

Regular specialities such as orthopaedics are by and large saturated. This requires increasing the number of seats in specialities, rather than indiscriminately increasing MBBS seats.

B. Parthasarathy,
Chennai

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