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The Indian healthcare system is very uniquely designed, by default and not by willful customisation of course, uniquely designed to excel and succumb both. Okay, I understand, having made such a bold opening statement I am under a moral obligation to elaborate and I won't dodge it. Designed to succumb does not need much of deciphering it is almost self-evident. ...

"The war has begun, the bodybags have started pouring in but I see none of them wrapped in the tricolour, no one honouring them with 21 gun salute."A war is won not by the political and bureaucartic hail of befuddiment but by the corage and valour of the frontline soldiers. The Problem The problem with the Indian healthcare system had been that its political masters have not only failed to recognise the valour of its outreach cadre but also have served them a recipe of confusion. In the absence of a clear and guiding strategy to motivate and recruit private healthcare professionals in the war against COVID 19, Indian healthcare is heading towards a catastrophe. Who are these private healthcare professionals and why blatant neglect of their issues will be blunder we ought not to indu...

गरीब लहरों पर पहरे बिठाए जाते हैं समंदरों की तलाशी कोई नहीं लेता। This unfortunate scenario is the hallmark of the typical Indian system where from the time immemorial the soft targets, the personification of truth, honesty and dedication, have been subjected to undergo the suffering of acid tests. During the days of Ramayana it was the soft, docile Sita, the Goddess persona of love and devotion who was subjected to multiple Fire tests to the extent that finally she could bear no more and buried herself underground. Today it is the hardworking medical fraternity, leaving aside the other much more corrupt fragments of the society like the judiciary, the politicians and almost the entire administrative agencies, that is bearing the burnt of governmental  malice ,why? because the...

Reality has an obligatory effect of matching the subconscious image that we have about a particular entity, unfortunately the subconscious image of medical profession that is being created by the malicious media and the unrelenting system is one of loot and criminality and the reality is just an after effect of the same. We carry this subconscious imagery with all its unclear tribulations  and morphed shadows when we enter the doctors office and our own grief resultant from the suffering for which we are seeking the consultation, makes this image even more distorted.The obligatory effect of this is that it forces our brain to have a very unrealistic expectations from the doctor and to view him not as someone who will help us alleviate our suffering, keeping in mind the practical re...

#respectdoctors ever wondered what will happen if you put the gun on a driver's head and ask him to drive straight, Will it decrease the chances of accident... well, the mood in the doctor community is echoing the same sentiments, frightened, jittery and prone to faulter. The central factor, the spine of doctor patient relationship i.e. trust has suffered a devastating blow, the relationship has been severely breeched. No, I am not dwelling into the causation of this, who caused this breech of trust wether doctors themselves, the government, the media or the public that is not the point of consideration at this time, what is more relevant at this time is to look at the effect and with all the sincerety I possess and all the experience that I have as a practicing doctor, I can say that th...

  In what could be termed as an utter sense of political shrewdness to gain cheap mileage or an utter sense of political immaturity to withstand public pressure, the Delhi government cancelled the license' of Max hospital ... Justice on the spot without giving a fair chance to the doctors, to be heard. Look at the parallel, almost 50 children die at BRD Medical college Gorakhpur due to adminstrative failure and the bureaurates and the politicians are left Scott free, government makes no efforts to cancel it's license or resign... such hypocrisy. ..50 children vs a non viable foetus. And consider this, what options did the doctors at Max had, foetus was 22 wks non viable, an informed DNR (do not resuscitate) consent was already taken from the parents, had they resuscitated suc...