Many doctors have established medical or surgical practices in major metropolitan hospitals with comfortable lifestyles, regular sources of income, a steady volume of patients and some measurable capacity to enjoy life and indulge (even overindulge) in life’s luxuries.

This has therefore made some physicians indifferent on certain alarming issues: the exodus of physicians and nurses to US, Europe, Middle East and Japan; the career shift of Filipino doctors to nursing; the dwindling number of medical students; the decline in number of applicants for residency and fellowship training programs; and the status of the medical malpractice bill in Congress.

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