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You know how people say when grown up they want to become a doctor?

A lot of people at
the point of their life wanted to became doctor, policeman, lawyer and etc. When they think about
that, we found examples that a good doctor has a lot of income, get respect on society, get a bright
future, helping other people in need and etc. However, the reality is not like that. There are so many
doctors that don’t get occupied. Also, did you know that doctor has higher suicide rate than those
who working on military, which is considered a very stressful occupation.

One study show that depression affects an estimated 12% of male doctor and up to 19.5% of
female doctors. Depression is more common on medical students and residents. Around 15% to 30%
of medical students have symptoms of depression due to the pressure that put medical student has
in order to achieve high grade and usually they have to study really hard because doctor standard
around the world has gone up ever since. To keep it up, medical students have to study harder. This
occasion makes some of them quit in middle of their medical education.

In Indonesia, there are around 95.976 doctors that have been registered on March 20th
2014. While at the same year, Indonesia has 255.1 millions of residents on this country. Therefore,
the ratio is 1 doctor for every 2.536 people. It’s a higher ratio than WHO suggests that 1 doctor for
every 2.500 people. Doctor in Indonesia is cramped up in 1 island, which is on Java. There is a
problem in distribution of the doctor all around Indonesia. This is a problem because place such as
Papua doesn’t have enough doctor compared to Java. It lead to difficulty on job seeking in Java.
Surely, it explains why there so many doctor that don’t get occupied in Java.

Also, unfortunately, since doctors aren’t well distributed on Sumatra, Kalimantan, and
Papua, they demanded to put much bigger effort on their working with very minimal equipment.
This can be solved by distributing doctors all around Indonesia equally. Additionally, with help from
government, solution can be achieved by building more hospitals or local health centers with decent
equipments and specialists. With plan like this, we could improve national health and ease doctor
burden during their duties on hospitals or local health centers. It will cut the stress level on doctors
that have a long shift since someone will be available to replace them on the next shift.

although this hard to achieved but with enough support from both goverment and society
but there a problem with living expenses and transportation because the road on for example in
papua its hard to get around. But if we can distribute doctor properly, doctor doesnt have to suffer
much from long shift and overall performance will improve and everybody want this but

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