In past few years, I must have
read more than 100 times that a doctor has been beaten up by the public, citing
reasons for medical negligence. The policy makers, however, remain in the state
of acquired & selective immune state to the pity condition pertaining to
security of doctors. Being in the medical profession actively, I have, myself, been
in unpleasant states many times; I have been threatened, I have been bullied at,
I have been shouted at.
Doctors, in the aftermath of such
an incident, kick a strike or raise slogans against authorities, which leads to
solutions with little shelf lives. Can a doctor work with free mind when the
dangers of being maltreated loom high? Would a parliamentarian agree to consult
a doctor for his own treatment minutes after the doctor had been at the
receiving end of mass apathy stimulated by a mean rabble-rouser? A doctor
spends golden years of his life in the company of volumes of books to get well
equipped with the art of healing; but that doesn’t mean that every ailment is
manageable. Things take their own course despite the best of treatment plans
and outcomes might not be in direct proportion to the hopes and prayers of the
patient’s relatives.
Sometimes, I feel nauseated by
the phlegmatic gesture of the people who rule the country. If a doctor feels
unsafe while serving the patients, there is something gross amiss in the
policies and groundwork. No one likes to be humiliated by public bashing after unsuccessfully
trying to save a life; not being able to possess divine powers is not akin to
crime.
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