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Recent Comments

• Jimbo: What does this post even mean? What comprises a “household” ;? (In S’pore that often describes multi-generations crammed...
• sgdoc: very simple lah young doctors work longer hours (nights and weekends) older doctors got family and work shorter hours Unlike most...
• reason: if both are true (i’m not saying they are), a possible explanation is that the 10k young doctors are earning now are above the...
• hmmm: Top 100 jobs puts the doctors pay at $10K; doesnt seem to reconcile. http://www.salary.sg/2 010/top-100-jobs-in-si ngapore-2010/
• happydoc: NUS Dental Surgery – 100.0% ($3,176) http://www.transitioni ng.org/2010/04/07/grad uate-employment-survey -2009-published-201...
• ?: how much do dentists earn?
• happydoc: Your figures are not updated Starting pay is $6000 for Malaysia medical graduates to work in Singapore. This includes housing allowance...
• law123: to Hoho: it’s a fact. Mwongky: yup, doctoring is definitely more meaningful. but we ARE on salary.sg and not meaningoflife.sg and...
• Mwongky: Wow, you guys are right up there trading blows. Money is nice but not the colossus of needs. Make it meaningful gentlemen. That’s...
• hoho: The article above applies to overseas medicine graduates. Local grads need to serve a 5 year bond in public hospitals, where they draw $2k...
• law123: law students start at 5k, more so at foreign firms. i believe med HO start at 2.4k, MO1 around 3?
• happydoc: Cause we study medicine not for money That’s why you are a medicine reject. The interviewer must have sensed that you value money...
• dentist: dentists defintely make more than doctors, sometimes even more than surgeons. the irony is that most dentists are medicine rejects and yet...
• happydoc: Does it matter that lawyers make more? Doctors are happy helping patients get better and this gratitude is something that money cant buy....
• law123: lawyers still make more.
• ministers?: what about ministers?
• anonymous: doctors deserve every cent they make. i’d pay top dollar for a doctor to keep me healthy. and also for pilots, to ensure that I...
• publicdr: I agree with happydoc. I myself work in a polyclinic as a Locum. The satisfaction that comes with helping the less fortunate Singaporeans...
• happydoc: Luckily we have a lot of dedicated doctors in Singapore who want to help the poor and needy instead of going private. The money is good...
• local: maybe because you are a foreigner? they probably calculated that the risk of a foreigner defaulting is higher than a local, and rejected you...

Quotable Quotes

• Nassim Taleb: Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet. (UK Sunday Times, Jun 1, 2008)
• Lim Swee Say: I was never strong in language. When I speak in Mandarin, people will think I'm English-educated. Then when I speak in English, people will think I'm Chinese-educated... I'm Chinese-educated, and my Chinese sucks. (ST, May 1, 2010)
• Times of India: Today Singapore is a very neat, prosperous and liveable city. It is free from civic violence but its civic life is dull. The city-state has no great heroes. It has no grand story to tell the world. (Mar 19, 2010)
• MM Lee: Singaporeans have become less hard-driving and hard-striving. This is why it is a good thing that the nation has welcomed so many Chinese immigrants. (National Geographic, Jan 2010)
• Straits Times: The distinctions between citizens and PRs could not have been clearer. (ST, Oct 24, 2009)
• Financial Times alphaville: Singapore's acquisitive Temasek is up to its old tricks again, buying high and selling low... (May 15, 2009)
• Minister Gan Kim Yong: ... if in a crisis situation, you are willing to sit at home and do nothing for one year, not doing anything, that means you are not very flexible. (CNA, Apr 19, 2009)
• Wong, ex-banker: It's all about making money, not because we love the bank. (ST, Feb 7, 2009)
• Reuters India: Singapore ranks alongside Kenya for income disparity. (Jan 11, 2009)