Second Opinion

I know this is a crisis time probably the worst mankind has witnessed over past several decades and even centuries but this will pass as many of our other nefarious pasts. I sincerely hope it does but at what cost I can't foretell, nobody can but, that's not what I am going to talk today. I am going to take you on a tangential line of thinking. My point is when it is gone when the leftover human population would be standing on the ruins of this pandemic that should be a time for retrospection for all, as it is for me today. There are two very important revelations striking out of this retrospection for me today which I am going to share with you. 1. We need to restructure our social system. The way our society is designed today, I think we have got it all wrong. Look at who is th...

What is a man without an identity and what is a nation without the sense of pride in its identity? Whether Rani Padmavati had a real historical existence or she was a work of fiction cannot change one basic fact that she was a symbol of pride. We have all grown up reading stories of her Jauhar, the stories that have inculcated in us the values on the premise of which we claim our rightful existence, the stories that we tell our children to teach them values our ancestors lived by, to nurture them with the respectful identity of themselves and their nation. I would have had no issue with the film had the filmmakers not claim it to be a work of fiction. Had Mr Bhansali claimed and believed it to be historically true then it would have qualified to be a case of unravelling the truth and go...

To my mind, thanks to media bashing and public outcry severely against doctors, this is the best time for the fraternity. The disorganised, asynchronous and highly self-centred fraternity was never so fluid to allow itself to be glued together in a strong cohesive unit. Thanks mainly to the rising incidence of uncalled for violence  against the doctors, this unity seems a gettable dream. Fear is a strong force and fear of losing ones own existence a even stronger  one. The community is frightened and depressed, many of the leading practitioners are ready to quit or have started considering the possibility, they have started discouraging their children from joining the profession, left to itself the profession will fall apart in time sooner than one can imagine. Now is the time to...

It feels so condescending even to, cater to a thought such as this but the fact of the matter is that the thought lies well within the realm of reality and the sooner the medicos understand this the better it would be for them. Gone are the days when a doctor's aspirations were, to treat the patient on the merits of the case, but today every patient comes with a package, the package with the question of potential affordability, not merely by the patient but more so for the doctor . The assessment of the net worth of the potential patient becomes a criterion of central importance in patient selection.  In case this is getting confusing let me elaborate- Supreme Court of India had awarded a compensation going into few crores in a medical negligence case, taking into consideration the net ...