Becoming a Doctor in Turkey

With the coronavirus epidemic that has started to be seen in the world and in our country since 2020, we had to understand and realize the importance of doctors once again.
During the worst periods of the Covid 19 pandemic, we sometimes applauded doctors nationally by going to balconies, and sometimes we showed our gratitude by banning resignations and leave.
Four hundred and forty-five healthcare workers died in the one and a half year period until July 1, 2021, when the ban on resignation and leave for healthcare workers was lifted.
While doctors hoped that the professional law and conditions would improve somewhat with the lifting of the resignation and leave ban and the decrease of the pandemic, with the latest developments, the conditions and treatments have started to become unbearable. So, what do these doctors want? What are the problems with these doctors' professional law and the treatment they receive?
They want to work humanely, so to speak, and, for example, examine a reasonable number of patients. In the current system, they are forced to see a patient every five minutes or even three minutes.
This short period of time does not make it possible to listen to the patient's complaints, examine him, request tests, evaluate him and organize his treatment. They do not want to be subjected to violence because of the dysfunction in the system.
Since the system requires seeing a hundred patients a day, of course, there is not enough time for the patients, there are no smiles on their faces, and even when they go home, there is no time left to talk.
However, instead of rebelling against the system, people choose to use violence against the doctor put in front of them. The demands we have mentioned are just a few of the problems of the healthcare system. According to the data of the Turkish Medical Association, in the last four years, 7 thousand specialist physicians and 13 thousand 500 doctors and assistants resigned from the public sector and moved to the private sector. Some of them were qualified physicians who trained doctors in medical faculties.
While a total of 1,144 doctors went abroad in the last six years before 2018, 4,185 specialist physicians, physicians and assistants migrated abroad in the last four years after 2018. A record number of applications are expected this year and it is estimated that this number will exceed 2000. In a country where no one seeks their rights, the efforts of our physicians, who have been qualified with 6-7 years of difficult training and expertise, to seek their rights, and the fact that this effort is met with criticism from a segment of the society, reveal the dire situation.
Even those at the top of the state said, “If they go, let them go. "We employ doctors who have just graduated from university here." Their statements are proof of how easily trained doctors and healthcare professionals in our country are disregarded. Currently, the migration of healthcare professionals has decreased from doctors in hospitals to students in medical schools. Unfortunately, there may not even be a young doctor to be employed soon.