True accounts from a junior doctor. From bargaining with a child using stickers in exchange for a blood draw to complex, sickly elderly patients to dark medical humour between healthcare professionals, being a doctor is a rollercoaster of a calling...
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An email was sent out to all healthcare professionals in all departments of all hospitals in HK who had participated in the strike earlier in February 2020.
HR accuses us of being 'absent from duty' rather being on strike as guided and represented by a registered, legal trade union. Striking is legal under HK law and we cannot be punished as a result of it, whereas being absent from duty is liable to having our work contract terminated in concordance with one of the contract clauses.
This is why one of the five demands of the healthcare professionals in Chapter 88 was this: "5. To publicly commit to not taking any disciplinary actions in retaliation". Because we know these people will punish us, publically or underhandedly, because we dared disobey and have individual thought.
At least we are calm knowing they cannot fire us all, with HK still short of hundreds of doctors and thousands of nurses (and god knows how many allied healthcare workers). If not for our strike, Carrie Lam wouldn't have closed a bigger portion of the border (still remains open, albeit only partially, by the way).
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