We all know about the doctor's strike that is happening in Maharashtra and other parts of India after several doctors were mercilessly thrashed in emergency rooms of government hospitals. I want to support their protest and strike in spirit but from all indications nothing much can be achieved by this strike. The people who sit in judgement are narrow minded and self serving while being the the models of hypocrisy that our country celebrates. Politicians who visited the hospitals attacked say they can't control the emotions of the hooligans attacking doctors. You see those hooligans are the ones who vote for them.

They have threatened to cut 6 months salary of all protesting doctors. This surplus from cutting salaries will probably go to party fund. "It is a shame on the profession; if doctors go on strike like factory men, then they are unfit to be doctors,” the court says. The high…