Providing healthcare is no easy task. It requires one to have total commitment towards the patients, inhumanly long working hours, studying for recent advances throughout your life, compromising your personal life in favor of giving undivided attention to patients. All of this is the classic recipe for doctors developing mental health issues. To add to the woes, patients and their families have started filing law suits at the drop of a hat. The constant stress of the same and the resulting defensive practice have only made matters worse.
The build-up of this stress starts from first day of medical college. Learning and remembering vast amounts of information, giving constant exams is an uphill task. To make matters worse, the number of post graduate seats in our country is very minimal. The 3 years of residency are again very stressful with the resident doctors hardly getting only 4…
