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, premature ejaculation (pardon my trenchant analogy). More than ninety percent have failed, and…

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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 one commonality, premature ejaculation (pardon my trenchant analogy). More than ninety percent have…

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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 the entire episode will lead us to the following glaring inferences—bold, flagrant and…

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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 to legalise the practice of allopathic procedures by Ayurvedic doctors. Over the past…

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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 bureaucartic hail of befuddiment but by the corage and valour of the frontline…

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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 my qualifications, it now seems to me, are nothing but unnecessary and evil,…

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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 were evident when he arrived, an otherwise very punctual man, a very serious…

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Four Gravest Mistakes Of My India

I am no political analyst but I am compelled to write this because my nationalist self will not allow me a quieter repose otherwise. With so much talk going around in current arena about nationalism and anti-nationalism about an impactful retaliation and considering the long term repercussions of such retaliation.…

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