The Good and the Bad of Volunteering for Covid Duty
How does one describe the end of a working experience? There is a mixture of happiness that it happened, sadness that it's over and regret that you couldn't have done more while you were there. Having worked in both government and private hospitals for prolonged periods, I can definitely say that I prefer working in government hospitals for a number of reasons. As an MBBS doctor, you'll definitely be doing more good in a government hospital - can help more people and you'll learn a lot more by seeing more cases and having better followup (people always tend to come back). And you don't have to worry about creating profit for the hospital (something that doesn't come naturally to me). So when Covid cases started shooting up in Trivandrum last year, I had felt an inherent desire to help out. And as always, I tend to overestimate exactly how much I can help out in the need, which is a recipe for disappointment. Like all things in life, the past few months have had