Should Medical Students With Mental Illness Be Allowed To Become Doctors?

Over the recent years, too many complaints have been heard from employers, at least, in the scenario of Malaysian hospitals, that more and more housemen are becoming problematic and not being able to function adequately. Too many a time, mental health problem or illness is being blamed as the culprit, leaving a negative impression on mental health and psychiatric profession. This is a disconcerting issue, which needs to be addressed. Is this a result of a sin committed by medical universities for producing unfit doctors? Is this due to unconducive working environment that may trigger mental health problems among the young doctors? Or are there other reasons contributing to this phenomenon? These questions remain difficult to be answered as, to our knowledge, there has not been any systematic enquiry looking into this issue