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If you wish to protest, change your tactics
During the past twenty-five years of my association with the medical field in capacities as a student, qualified professional, and private practitioner, I have witnessed numerous strikes by the members of my fraternity. They all had but one commonality,…
Why Doctors should never go on strike
During the past twenty-five years of my association with the medical field in capacities as a student, qualified professional, and private practitioner, I have witnessed numerous strikes by the members of my fraternity. They all had but…
Five changes we need to bring about in the way practice our profession
She had to choose between life and death, she chose death. The doctor is dead. Doctor is dead…some serious introspection needed Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was reading the newspaper one morning when, to his shock,…
Three important inferences to draw from Ramdev’s flagrant audacity
Mr Ram Kisan Yadav’s recent jibe with allopathic medicine and allopathic doctors created a furore in the media and public. It is definitely more than a mere act of stupidity—well crafted and predetermined. A close inspection of…
MIXOPATHY…ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN
“If you cannot compete, impede.” The term ‘Mixopathy” does not have a dictionary meaning, nor does it have a legitimate definition behind its origin and use, it is as illegitimate as the government intention behind the notification…
Battle Against Corona…Utter Confusion
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…
Government Apathy towards Small Medical Centres in the Battle Against Corona…A strategic Mistake.
“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…
Application seeking waiver from the mandatory qualification & registration requirements under the ‘Divinity & Dignity’ scheme.
To, Honourable Minister of health, Government Of India. Sir, I am a qualified medical professional (allopathic), and in the service of the nation for the last twenty years. Sir, very humbly I wish to submit here that…
The Manifesto I want For My India
Is the idea of a democracy is just to vote and choose a group of people and empower them with constitutional rights to loot us. If you dismiss this statement as irrational, illogical and a product of…
AAP… A Lost Opportunity
It was perhaps November 2012, I was sitting in my Nursing Home there was a cesarean section about to start and we all were waiting for the anaesthetist of our team to arrive. For some reasons, which…