Doctor’s blog

If you are a medical professional and planning to buy medical scrubs, you may try buying medical scrubs online. If you are in need of medical scrub and have already purchased medical scrubs from your local store, you can think of buying your required medical scrub online. Buying anything online has its own advantages and disadvantages. If you have never purchased anything online you may be hesitant while buying anything including medical scrubs online.

First, you need to know the advantages of buying medical scrubs online, which are although obvious. The most important advantage of buying medical scrub or anything for that matter is the time it can save in these modern day busy life. And life is busier for a medical professional and saving you precious time can be a great advantage. The other advantages of buying medical scrub (and anything online) are the flexibility and ease it provides. You can shop at midnight and from anywhere in the world 24 hours a day and 365 day a year with just a click of your mouse at from the comfort of your home.

There are some disadvantages though and the disadvantages are also obvious to understand. You may be cheated by fraudsters and may never get the item you have ordered or if you get also it may take longer and the quality of the item may not be of the standard you were promised while ordering the item online. So make sure that the company or online shop you are ordering your items is of high quality in service and the company should be reliable or you may get cheated. So if you are planning to buy medical scrubs online make sure that you buy from a reliable company.

When I started this blog I had very little knowledge about internet and all the aspects about starting a blog or site. I started this blog with advice from my friend and now I blog regularly (in other health blogs). I am blog for more than a year now and learnt many useful matters about blogging and internet. If you get yourself involved in a particular subject you can learn many useful things and I also learnt that way.

A major aspect to consider when starting a blog or website is to get a good and trustworthy web hosting provider. Web hosting is important. Buying a domain (or getting a domain for free from free domain and hosting provider such as wordpress or blogger) is like adding life to a website (or blog) and buying web hosting is like adding muscle, bones, blood etc. to a life and without web hosting you life (in this case domain) has no meaning. Your blog will be complete only after adding life (domain in this case) and the body (muscle, bones, blood) for the life to hold.

Deciding a good and trustworthy web hosting provider is vital for your blog/website. To find a good hosting provider may not be easy. You can find out good and trustworthy web hosting provider from your friends (who are already using the web hosting service), discuss and find out from well known forums (such as digitalpoint) or you can read some web hosting reviews and decide which web hosting provider can do the right service for you.

If you start blogging or decide to start a website (or a network of websites), you should think about buying web hosting from a good and trustworthy web hosting provider which allow multiple domain hosting. By choosing a web hosting provider you can save a good amount of money and also get your desired web hosting.

There are different systems of education in different countries of the world and the process of becoming a doctor also varies in different countries. The first step of becoming a doctor is to become a medical graduate and thereafter a medical graduate (doctor) becomes specialist doctor (which is post graduation in any medical discipline) and further super-specialist doctor which is post PG (post graduate). In different countries the duration also varies, to become a medical graduate first and then specialization, the duration varies. In a same country also the duration may be changed by the appropriate authorities.

In my country, primary education is for five years, secondary education is another five years and higher secondary education is for 2 years. Higher secondary education is of three types namely arts, commerce and science streams. Those who select science stream, they, after completing 2 years in science write an entrance examination for entry into a medical institute.

Ranks are given according to the merit list in the entrance examination and if selected can get admission to a medical institute (medical college). There are Govt. as well as private medical colleges and they conduct entrance examination separately. Private managed medical colleges charge hefty admission fees.

After admission to medical institute the students go through a four and a half years graduation course and one year compulsory internship. All aspects of medical science are generally covered in four and a half years course. After successful completion of compulsory internship they are given registration to practice medicine, by appropriate govt. authority. Once successfully completed, the doctors (medical graduates) are eligible for post graduation in the subject of their choice.

All professions, jobs, positions (how prestigious the position may be), or for that matter anything in this world have its pros and cons (or positive and negatives) and all of us are aware of this pros and cons, although we do not consider this frequently and seriously. All of us are aware of the positive aspects of being a doctor, such as well placed person in society, name, fame and blah blah blah (when you do not have enough time for yourself and family, in my opinion all these name and fame means very little).

But I wonder if you have ever wondered (if you are not a doctor or medical person) what are the cons or disadvantages of being a doctor. I am telling from my own experience, as I am a doctor, what are the great disadvantages of doctors in general and also I will tell the problems I face for being a doctor, which I would like not to face.

The greatest disadvantage of being a doctor is that you know that you are no body to save life (only God can save and doctors only do their job and try their best to do their job), but other people see you as a person who can save life (it is really a frustrating thing). If you are an honest (to yourself and not to others) doctor you know what you are, what you can do and what you can not do. Many a times you get frustrated, because even after your best efforts your patient is not responding accordingly, although you get joy when you see a patient is responding better than your expectation and this is enough to understand that nothing is in your hand.

Another great disadvantage is having less (and lesser) time for yourself and family. This may be frustrating, especially when you see your friends in other profession are having a ball of a time and you age busy treating sick people. I personally get frustrated in this type of job and so I changed my job from being a doctor to being a teacher in a Medical College and choose a Para-clinical subject, where I do not have to attend patients. When I was joining Medical College for study all these things were not in my mind, but I could manage my life. Unfortunately many doctors only live with all these disadvantages never realizing there is always a way out of every problem in life.

I will continue writing the negative aspects of being a doctor from my own experience.

I stopped buying IPOs (initial public offerings), which a company sells its share to the public for the first time. After IPO also some company may sell shares to general public sometimes to raise money and the procedure followed is exactly same as that of an IPO, the only difference is that it is not initial public offer, rather it is subsequent public offering. Due to some disadvantages of IPOs, I started buying shares of a company which has gone public through IPO, on the very first day its shares starts trading in the stock exchange.

There are some advantages of buying shares on the very first day of trading after an IPO issue. Let consider a hypothetical situation. A person “X” request 1000 shares of a company “ABC” for Rupees 10,000 at 10 rupees each but the IPO issue was oversubscribed 5 times, so instead of getting 1000 shares person “X” gets only 200 shares for 2000 rupees. And on the first day of trading the shares of “ABC” corporation goes up by 10%, when I decide to buy 1000 shares of “ABC” corporation at 10% higher rate for 11,000 Rupees. After 2 months the shares goes up by 20% and it takes 2 months for “X” to get back his remaining 80% which was returned to him by “ABC” corporation. 2 months after initial trading as the price goes up 20% “X” gets profit of Rupees 400 (20% of 200 shares costing Rupees 2000) which account for merely 4% of actual 10000 invested by “X” and I get profit of 2000 (20% of 1,000 shares which were purchased for 11,00 Rupees) which account for approximately 18.18%. By this hypothesis I get profit of 18.18% from actual investment and “X” gets profit of only 4% from his actual money invested.

For the above reason I am investing in the shares on the very first day of trading instead of buying IPO, not to mention there are many formalities of buying IPO, like filling up forms, making “demand draft” for the purchase, sending the filled up form with the bank draft by post etc.

Few years back I decided to learn something about stock market and learn how to invest profitably in the share market. I started investing in the stock market and initially got some profit. But the last year’s bearish market started and I lost in most of my stocks. I did not sell any of the shares and still holding the shares, probably in the hope of making some profit in the long run.

Initially I invested in the IPOs (initial public offerings) but later on changed the idea of investing in IPOs, due to some disadvantages of investing in IPOs as an individual. The biggest disadvantage in investing in IPO as an individual is, you have to pay the full amount but may not get the shares for the full amount and you end up getting only a small percentage of the total amount and the remaining money is returned to you. And the money which is returned to you sit ideally for months together without earning any bucks. For example I wanted to buy 1000 shares of a company XYZ at the price of 10 each, so I pay Rupees (Indian currency) 10,000 and the company XYZ- IPO get oversubscribed 10 times (they plan to sell X number of shares, but get order for 10X number of shares or ten times more than they want to sell), so what the company XYZ does is issue only 10% shares to an individual’s demand. So I end up getting only 100 shares of XYZ, and they keep Rupees 1000 for 100 shares and return Rupees 900 to me. So this Rupees 900 sits ideally for me till I get the money in my bank account without earning a penny, which may for several months. If you invest more the higher amount sit ideally for you.

The above reason is strong enough for me not to invest in the IPOs and instead I buy shares (IPOs to be precise) the day it starts trading because sometimes I get to buy at lower than IPO price and I can buy for 100% of my money. In case of IPOs it may be sometimes less than even 10%, although rarely.

I invested some money in shares, like many other people without knowing much about stock market. If someone invests in some area which he/she has not much knowledge the result can be guessed and same is the result of my investment in stocks. Fortunately I did not invest much money in the stock market.

The values of many of my shares are well below the level where I purchased and only a few of the shares are above the purchased price. During the bear market of last year many of my shares lost values and came down drastically, like what happened across the globe. Fortunately since last few months the stock market is showing some signs of recovery and the shares are gaining some value back.

There are many services available online regarding share trading; the service providers claim the services to be beneficial to the investors, especially to those investors who do not have much idea or knowledge about share trading and its technicalities.

Market-pulse technical analysis & trading is one such service which many people use, but I do not subscribe to any such service. As a doctor I do not have much time and I only invest time to time when I have some money left for investment, after paying for everything including insurance premiums. Market-pulse is a service which provides intraday options like calls, which has to be settled on daily basis.