Two junior doctors were badly
attacked by the attendees of a patient, who died from cardiac arrest in a
medical college in Bengal on Monday! Unfortunately, I had posted a very similar
blog last year in March 2018; but the recent incidence has forced me to post
this yet again. This is just one of the many incidences which happen on a very
frequent basis with doctors and have been on an unfortunate rise in the past
few years. I am ashamed to even type that the doctors are beaten up, shamed,
dragged into consumer courts and at times even abused by the patients or their
attendees for anything that goes UNEXPECTED!
I have grown up in a family
immersed in medical science, and at present, I reside in a campus full of medical
graduates. I have lived with doctors all around me since always and now that I
am practicing as one myself, I realize the level of responsibility, care,
concern, and compromise that the doctors carry on their shoulders. Medicine is
not a branch where things come easy. Right from a naïve age when the other
school kids enter graduate colleges and experience a relatively easy life, the
medical graduates are taught to be mature and responsible. In times today when
specialization, super-specialization, and fellowships are a must to run a
practice, the same graduates have to enter a race yet again to earn a seat in a
good institute to read further and further. While the people that they grow up
with get into stable jobs right after their graduation, the doctors are still
uncertain about their stability and their security even after having read till
n number of years. Be it compromising their sleep at night or compromising
their family lives, they do it all so that they can learn more and work better
because they don’t deal with systems or programs they deal with walking,
talking human lives. From a Cardiac surgeon who performs a massive surgery to
save a life to Dental surgeons who treat and restore your teeth and improve your
quality of life, we all deal with living beings!
With the human body, my dear
non-medico friends a+b is not always equal to c. With the complexity of the
beautiful human system which nature has made, the allergies, the responses, the
micro-organisms and of course the psychology all come to play a role in your
disease which your doctor understands, treats and cures. No matter how young or
old the doctor is, they use all their knowledge, skills and time, to talk about
and discuss about a patient that they are treating at any point in time so that
they can give it their best. It’s highly shameful that despite whatever they
do, despite whatever quality of life that they themselves lead; they are still
blamed and shamed endlessly. Be it natural deaths, huge bills of a corporate
hospital; or unavailability of beds in a hospital the doctors are held
responsible for everything because they are the easiest targets.
If you, my dear non-medico
friend, work in a scenario like this, where you know you may be assaulted,
killed, jailed for anything that deviates from the plan which you give your
patients, would you still want to take to treat them? Would you still want to
treat them with the same comfort? So many private practitioners today do not
want to take a risk of treating a patient whom they feel is having any
complication? Reason? The doctor is saving his own life. Yes, the big private
and government hospitals take up all cases but the day is not far when even
they will be reluctant to do so. Whom will you blame then? My post may
sound harsh, but read it with a doctor’s emotion and you may even cry reading
this.
If they say don’t eat overnight and come, you say they are
starving you...if they say eat no problem, then you say they are not doing the
tests right! If they charge you for what they do, they are looting you and
if they attend your midnight call then it’s their duty! Spare doctors my dear
friends you have no idea how much they sacrifice!
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