Doctors vs Engineers

I am back to the blogging world after a small lull. This time , I bring one of the most-debated topic of a senior-secondary level student. which profession is better - Engineering or Medical.
Both of these have been the two most sought after and prestigious careers for the Great Indian Middle class. Slowly and steadily though, engineering is gaining ground . Four years of engineering at a decent college will fetch you a well-paying job. What the doctors manage after years of academic grilling is even less than what a fresh MBA graduate from C category B-school manages to earn by selling credit cards and insurance policies.
After 4 years of cool life at engineering college with a good job , and a decent probability of financial-aid for those who want to pursue higher studies abroad. The misery of a medical student starts from the PMT entrance, followed by 5 years of medical ...... again .. an entrance with fewer number of seats to do post-graduate specialization of 3 years and .....if you are an ambitious person , then , another 2 years of super specialization. ... This takes a total of around 10-11 years ,only if you manage to clear all the entrance in the very first attempt , which rarest of the cases . And after , such mammoth effort , you set up your clinic or work under some doctor for some experience, which means best years of your life are over.
It is really pathetic for India that with head count of over 1 billion , we have a few quality doctors coming out of colleges every year. The number of seats is medical college needs to increased so , that we have enough doctors to cater the need of the bulging population. The existing hospitals are already over-crowded. Every year , we hear the increased intake news for IITs and IIMs , but, nothing is heard for medical colleges.There is nothing wrong in it if we find the new geneartion going away from medical profession and moving towards eay but, well apying jobs.
The medical professionals are the one who are left with the minmum of the time to spend with families or to take vacations. Mostly , cant go on vacations because of the fear of loosing patients to their rivals .
Nowadays, a lot of medical graduates are seen pursuing MBA in hospitality management . Another avenue , which is fastly becoming popular in India is Clinical research and if India can manage to pursue the west countries to outsource their clinical trials to India , it could be turn out to be next boom , after IT and BPO industry.If this happens , Indian medical industry will surely go global..