A little explanation.
The previous entry was written after I met a guy about whom I had a great feeling and believe to have noticed signs of reciprocal feelings as well. He called to cancel our next date, claiming that I am too dangerous, too high-profile for his delicate position being a big poss somewhere in a big company and a member of a great family... so you can
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How can I embrace every day of my life when all I do in daily basis is wake up at 7 leave to work at 7:30 just to arrive at 9:30 and start working like a porter in stead of a doctor only to be paid 250 LE a month, a salary less than what a real porter in the hospital wins with no health insurance! that's internship ala Egyptian.
How can I be happy when all my colleagues dodge me either because of my opinions or because I once friended others they don't like "Copts"... Few of them would try so hard to get me in a quarrel before getting home in another 2 hours to sit here on this PC and do nothing worthy because I would never get time to do anything, then sleep to repeat the cycle!
You know when you were a teenager! well, internship is just the teenager period of a doctor's life. No one is happy there and I am not.
I will be happy once next may comes, when I leave Cairo for a start and become independent for the first time of my life, study for USMLE and leave this area forever.
And I know there, life won't be easy at all... but let me tell one thing in numbers:
As a GP in (USA, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AFRICA) I will make 40 times the money I make here... not to mention that I will be free to do whatever I want without being watched with superstitious eyes thinking that I became the anti-christ.
I will never taste real happiness as long as I am not free.
Sorry, it got long and of course it is bitter!
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For the record, income in SA is not anywhere near the one you'd earn in Canada or Oz.
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