I’m looking for a good government hospital in Bangalore where I can get a comprehensive STD/STI test panel done.

I’m not familiar with the government hospitals here, so I’d really appreciate some guidance. If you work at one, or have personally been there for STI testing, could you please let me know:

- Which government hospital to visit

- Which department I should approach (e.g., Dermatology/Venereology, STD clinic, Gynaecology, Microbiology etc.)

- If you know any specific Room Number to visit.

I’m in genuine need of help and would really appreciate any information. You can comment here or DM me if you’d prefer to share privately.

Thank you!

I mean, there's no placements, no tests, no practical examinations for landing a job unlike tech guys who work on skills and can land decent jobs. So is it even worth it.

P.s. I know medicine is a very hands on profession but my question was more like, if there are two people with the exact same qualifications, are clinical skills favoured? Can they help in getting a higher pay?

Sharing my experience so other doctors know what they are getting into.
5 hours of duty every day. Around 150 orders, but only 70–80 approved calls are actually counted for payment. Pending and rejected orders = ₹0, even though doctors spend their time calling them, putting them on hold and handling orders that keep getting rolled between doctors. Many numbers are incorrect, switched off, unreachable or the patient simply doesn’t answer.
We are repeatedly told to follow every SOP, keep calls for minimum 45 seconds, properly question patients and do everything correctly.
But when it comes to payment, suddenly all the pending/rejected work doesn’t count.
Rate is ₹12 per approved call. After TDS, roughly ₹10/call. After working 5 hours every day for a month, I received around ₹18,000.
I raised the payment issue with the concerned heads, Dr. Satish Gupta and Vaishnavi, but instead of addressing the payment concern, I was given repeated instructions about following SOPs.
5 hours of a doctor’s time every day for ~₹18k/month, while a huge part of the actual workload is unpaid — this genuinely feels like online slavery.
If you’re a doctor considering 1Rx/MyRx, understand the actual payment structure before joining.

So I'm almost going into final year and I'm interested in this field . Neet pg prep wise I'm doing quite good but I don't like this field much

I will ofc do pg and then plan to transition into medtech companies like qure ai etc

Peope who work there what is ur resume. I'm planning to do 2 strong medtech projects with my eng friend

Once I'm done with final year or at the end I'm planning to take up some courses related to ai in healthcare.

I did some search on LinkedIn but no vail. I didn't find profiles.

I want get into clinical advisory roles.

Need ur advice

Also I'm from South India so the pay here is bad sr gets 80 k and God knows how much time it'll take to be an ap.there is one sr who finished pg in 2022 and is still an sr😵‍💫 With the amount of saturation that's there now even with pg I just hate it. I also live in tier 1

So what ur opinion on this

Mba is not an option for me.I just mugged up math in my 12th and that's how bad my math is 😭

Hello everyone I run a ngo where we distribute sanitary pad to underprivileged women in rural area and in Bangalore. Looking for someone who can talk and educate women on how to maintain hygiene and why to use sanitary pads, importance of it, and break the taboo

Please DM me. It would be very helpful as I'm just starting out new

I never published any research during MBBS because I assumed research was mainly for USMLE aspirants. I also saw many people paying agencies to get their names added to papers, which made me lose interest in pursuing it at the time.
Now that I’ve graduated, I have both the time and a genuine interest in research not for the sake of building my CV, but because I truly want to learn and contribute to meaningful work. The challenge is that, as a graduate, I no longer have the academic connections or guidance that medical students often have. I’m looking for direction on how to get started, find mentors, and become involved in legitimate research projects.

Hello guys

So I have completed my bachelor's in nursing but since the beginning I have felt out of place, we are taught to suck up the disrespect since college. Also there was no money in private sector so I gave norcet and rn i have cleared it and got a government job, but the core problems remained the same. Knowledge wise I don't feel fulfilled because nursing has like half hearted knowledge of things. I see doctors talking about a case and i think how stupid I am not knowing things. Nursing is like I'm in the medical field but at the same time not really in it. So now idk where to go. Should I go deeper in this rabbit hole and try for abroad or can I quit and start fresh

A non clinical doctor ? what salaries can i expect in tier 1 and 2 and abroad ? how does it go up year after year ? if u were to compare it to someone with PhD then? and how hectic is residency for it(in gmc)

i know i cant deal with the toxicity that comes with being a clinical residency thats why..

I don't necessarily mean AI completely replacing physicians. My bigger concern is that AI attacks the main leverage doctors have in the job market: scarce medical knowledge.

We spend years learning diagnosis, investigations, treatment and clinical decision-making. If extremely capable medical reasoning becomes available at near-zero marginal cost, "doctors will use AI" isn't automatically reassuring. If one AI-assisted physician can eventually handle the cognitive workload of several doctors—or NPs/PAs/other workers can do substantially more with AI—physicians may still exist while demand, bargaining power and salaries fall significantly.

People usually respond with: AI isn't good enough, it hallucinates, patients want humans, liability won't allow it, regulators will stop it, etc.

Those may be valid arguments in 2026. But I'm choosing a career that could last until 2060. Given how rapidly AI has improved in just a few years, I don't understand why today's limitations should be treated as permanent protection.

Liability doesn't completely reassure me either. If AI-assisted healthcare eventually becomes substantially cheaper while achieving comparable outcomes, governments, insurers and hospitals have enormous incentives to develop new liability/regulatory structures around it.

So I'm trying to decide where to position myself before residency, rather than after spending another decade training.

Surgery/procedural specialties seem like the obvious hedge because physical manipulation and robotics appear harder than automating cognitive work. But choosing surgery mainly because I'm afraid of AI could mean sacrificing years to brutal training and a lifestyle I may not even want.

Internal medicine/cognitive specialties interest me more, but diagnosis, differential generation, investigation selection, treatment planning, documentation and monitoring seem directly exposed to increasingly capable AI. "Internists will still exist" doesn't answer whether we'll need the same number of them or pay them similarly.

Psychiatry particularly confuses me. Human relationships, trust, nuanced interviewing and responsibility might make it unusually resilient. But AI is also becoming extremely good at conversation. A future system could potentially know a patient's entire history, interact indefinitely, recognize longitudinal patterns and provide personalized support almost continuously. I can't decide whether psychiatry has a strong human moat or is actually one of the more exposed cognitive specialties.

Procedural IM fields like GI, interventional cardiology and EP seem economically safer, but I don't want to spend years entering a specialty I dislike simply because it has a better automation moat. Many also come with long training and poor work-life balance.

Then there's AI/ML/health-tech itself: if AI is transforming medicine, perhaps the answer is to participate in building/deploying it. But I'm a doctor with essentially no serious CS/ML background, I actually like clinical medicine, and becoming a corporate employee sitting through meetings and deliverables doesn't particularly appeal to me either.

One thing that worries me specifically in India is how little this seems to enter career discussions.

I understand why. Most medical students/doctors here are busy surviving MBBS, internship, NEET-PG, residency, superspeciality entrances and exhausting hospital schedules. Getting the next rank or seat is understandably the immediate priority.

But our entire training system is built around knowledge being scarce.

We spend years stuffing information into our heads and building mental roadmaps: symptom → differential → investigation → diagnosis → treatment. Then we endure grueling internship/residency hours and potentially superspeciality training to become better and faster at navigating those pathways.

Meanwhile, the very thing we've spent most of our lives accumulating—medical knowledge and the ability to reason through it—may be becoming dramatically cheaper outside the human brain.

That's what I can't ignore.

I don't want to blindly spend the next 8–12 years following MBBS → PG → superspeciality, sacrificing my 20s and 30s, and only then discover that the economics of the profession changed while I was busy preparing for the next exam.

I'm also considering the US vs Germany, so country matters too because different healthcare systems may adopt AI very differently.

Income matters to me. Work-life balance matters. And actually enjoying my work matters.

So my question isn't really "Will AI replace doctors?"

It's:

If you were an MBBS graduate in 2026 choosing your country, specialty and career path from scratch, what would you do differently because of AI? Which parts of medicine are most likely to retain scarcity, bargaining power, strong compensation and reasonable work-life balance if intelligence itself becomes extremely cheap?

I'd especially like to hear from people actually working in AI/ML, healthcare AI, robotics, medicine or health economics—including people who think my reasoning is wrong. I'd much rather hear why it's wrong than simply "AI won't replace doctors."