Docs on the war path
It is no longer unusual to read of doctors or medicos going on strike It happened in Rajasthan and then inDelhi in the Safdarjung Hospital
"What is this malady and is there no tonic for this" is the question most frequently asked by the press and media and one they want us to mull over.
SURE THERE IS but to determine the “tonic” we need to first analyze the ‘Etiology’ or cause of the malady
In all the strikes called by the medicos all over the country so far there are two main reasons
1. Increase in pay and allowances
2. Scuffle with patients attendants and a demand for security
Let us take the second cause first
Have we ever wondered why there are no scuffles in private or corporate hospitals?
The security there does not allow anyone beyond the stipulated to enter the hospital wards or ICU no matter who or what
I wonder if any one even remotely related to the Gehlot family would have dared to barge their way in at The Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon
And yet we are hell bent on doing just that when we go to a govt. Hospital with scant respect for rules, regulations, convenience of other patients, hospital staff or whatever.
If a doctor or nursing staff tries to stop us, we think nothing of assaulting him or them. Have we ever tried to assault a policeman on duty? No, we do not, because we know it is a criminal offence and they are quite capable of retaliating, even without provocation, as they did in Jodhpur. Doctors are sitting ducks.
The greatest provocation for the patient’s relatives is the patient’s death. No doctor can perform miracles or even attempt to. A doctor treats. Death or life is not in his hands.
Their mistake is for taking the credit for this too long. The news channels have been terming doctors as Gods and seething how can doctors ignore patient’s misery.
DOCTORS ARE NOT GODS. Get this straight. NO doctor ever asked to be labeled as God. It is all society’s halo placed on unwilling heads. Please understand their limitations .THEY ARE HUMANS like everyone else, just as prone to failure and mistakes. It is the doctor’s misfortune that his work milieu is alive and a live object. A structure collapses and no one cribs as long as somebody doesn’t get killed or hurt. A NANO burns and it is small column news as long as someone was not burnt with it. A doctor slips and it is the police FIR and consumer court. That’s equality for you.
When doctors strike work for security against being thrashed like petty criminals and forced to jump off rooftops, it is so UNGODLY. Vive la GODS. Be Jesus Christ and say “Lord forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Now about the other issue, pay hikes.
Why the Govt. can’t standardize the pay packets all over the country is unfathomable. Residents now chose PG seats not by merit of the college alone, but also by the pay packets
Life isn’t easy by way of expenses, and I am sure labeling as GOD feeds no mouth. Is it hard to comprehend why an Asstt Professor in Govt service who is paid Rs.23000 per month chooses to resign and go to a private hospital on a salary of Rs 95000 per month? It can mean only two things. Either the Govt was fleecing and cheating the poor bloke or the Private hospital owner is a crack pot who is hell bent on floundering his establishment by hiring doctors at such exorbitant pay packets. Or maybe he is the one who knows the doctor’s true worth. GODS don’t need money, they shouldn’t ask for money. GODS in our country have to be stones, and yet have a heart that bleeds for everyone. The British NHS has defined the number of hours a resident doctor can work for optimum efficiency. In India this workload is way over mark. Yet they must suffer in silence, be thankful for what they get and brace themselves for the occasional roughing up as bonus. It takes time to discern whether they are so lucky to have the chance to become the golden goose or whether their goose is being cooked right and proper. Halleluiah GOD!
Where is the ‘tonic’? The tonic is in righting these wrongs, changing the mindset and perspective of the media and through it of the public and remembering that two wrongs do not make a right. So said the Mahatma.
"What is this malady and is there no tonic for this" is the question most frequently asked by the press and media and one they want us to mull over.
SURE THERE IS but to determine the “tonic” we need to first analyze the ‘Etiology’ or cause of the malady
In all the strikes called by the medicos all over the country so far there are two main reasons
1. Increase in pay and allowances
2. Scuffle with patients attendants and a demand for security
Let us take the second cause first
Have we ever wondered why there are no scuffles in private or corporate hospitals?
The security there does not allow anyone beyond the stipulated to enter the hospital wards or ICU no matter who or what
I wonder if any one even remotely related to the Gehlot family would have dared to barge their way in at The Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon
And yet we are hell bent on doing just that when we go to a govt. Hospital with scant respect for rules, regulations, convenience of other patients, hospital staff or whatever.
If a doctor or nursing staff tries to stop us, we think nothing of assaulting him or them. Have we ever tried to assault a policeman on duty? No, we do not, because we know it is a criminal offence and they are quite capable of retaliating, even without provocation, as they did in Jodhpur. Doctors are sitting ducks.
The greatest provocation for the patient’s relatives is the patient’s death. No doctor can perform miracles or even attempt to. A doctor treats. Death or life is not in his hands.
Their mistake is for taking the credit for this too long. The news channels have been terming doctors as Gods and seething how can doctors ignore patient’s misery.
DOCTORS ARE NOT GODS. Get this straight. NO doctor ever asked to be labeled as God. It is all society’s halo placed on unwilling heads. Please understand their limitations .THEY ARE HUMANS like everyone else, just as prone to failure and mistakes. It is the doctor’s misfortune that his work milieu is alive and a live object. A structure collapses and no one cribs as long as somebody doesn’t get killed or hurt. A NANO burns and it is small column news as long as someone was not burnt with it. A doctor slips and it is the police FIR and consumer court. That’s equality for you.
When doctors strike work for security against being thrashed like petty criminals and forced to jump off rooftops, it is so UNGODLY. Vive la GODS. Be Jesus Christ and say “Lord forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Now about the other issue, pay hikes.
Why the Govt. can’t standardize the pay packets all over the country is unfathomable. Residents now chose PG seats not by merit of the college alone, but also by the pay packets
Life isn’t easy by way of expenses, and I am sure labeling as GOD feeds no mouth. Is it hard to comprehend why an Asstt Professor in Govt service who is paid Rs.23000 per month chooses to resign and go to a private hospital on a salary of Rs 95000 per month? It can mean only two things. Either the Govt was fleecing and cheating the poor bloke or the Private hospital owner is a crack pot who is hell bent on floundering his establishment by hiring doctors at such exorbitant pay packets. Or maybe he is the one who knows the doctor’s true worth. GODS don’t need money, they shouldn’t ask for money. GODS in our country have to be stones, and yet have a heart that bleeds for everyone. The British NHS has defined the number of hours a resident doctor can work for optimum efficiency. In India this workload is way over mark. Yet they must suffer in silence, be thankful for what they get and brace themselves for the occasional roughing up as bonus. It takes time to discern whether they are so lucky to have the chance to become the golden goose or whether their goose is being cooked right and proper. Halleluiah GOD!
Where is the ‘tonic’? The tonic is in righting these wrongs, changing the mindset and perspective of the media and through it of the public and remembering that two wrongs do not make a right. So said the Mahatma.
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