Doctors, read your contract with the private hospital carefully


Most private hospital doctors are actually independent contractors with practising rights in the hospital, and not the hospital’s employee. — 123rf.com

When I entered private practice and joined my current private hospital in Melaka in 1994, I was only 34 years old.

The management of the hospital gave us a contract and all of us who joined the hospital, being young and naive, just signed it without much thought – we were just happy to have a place to practice.

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