Who can be trusted 谁最可信赖

In a latest annual survey released by the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, doctors have been named the profession most trusted by the public, followed by teachers, professors, judges and clergymen/priests completing the top five.

I am sure the finding is not applicable to Malaysia. With the highly commercialized medical services, doctors are the most needed persons but not the most trusted people to many men and women on the street.

A complaint of stomachache can cost you a bomb. In most private hospitals, you find yourself attended by three to four specialists, charging you with each visit, running medical tests which you have no faintest idea. I called it the referral practice. Specialist A would refer you to Specialist B, B to C, C to D then back to A. From consultant physician to consultant surgeon, to gastroentrologist ... to god knows who!?

In fact, medical profession top the number of complaints among government departments according to the government's Public Complaint Bureau's figure.

The fourth placing was accorded to judges.That is in England... not in Malaysia. With the many high profile cases, Lingham incident, Mahathir's strong arm twisting with justice during his tenure, the dramatic revelation by judges themselves, the judiciary has just come out of the darkest hours and is facing public confidence crisis at this movement.

May be it is a good idea to have our own survey....!


在最新公布的英国皇家医生学院年度调查里，前五名的排名中，医生是最被信赖的职业，接下来是教师，教授，法官及神父/神职人员。

这是英国的调查，并不适用于马来西亚。在今天高度商业化的环境里，医生可能是最需要的人，但不是最可信赖的专业。

今天，假如你是肚子痛进院的话，将会是一件费用昂贵的事情。在私人医院里，将会有三、四个专科医生前来“照顾”你，每一次到病房，都要算费，还有好多知名、不知名的化验。从专科内科，到外科，到肠胃专科，到鬼知道什么科名堂的医生。。。。我称这个为“互相介绍”的做法。甲医生会推介乙医生，乙会推荐丙医生，然后又回到甲医生。。。

事实上，在政府公共投诉科大数字显示，医药人员是最高投诉的对象。

排名第四的是法官。。。那是英国的排名，不是马来西亚。在过去的两年里，许多高调的案件审判，林甘事件，可疑的委任法官制度，马哈迪时代的专横法治对抗，马来西亚的司法刚从最黑暗的时期苏醒过来，目前还面对大众对司法的缺乏信心的困境。

或者我们也应该有自己的调查！