Earlier days the anxious Patient or Attendants listened to the advice or directions of any treating doctor with utmost devotion and faith. It was so carefully ingrained in the mind of the patient that he or she followed it religiously and with absolute regularity. It became a jovial remark or teaser that some people would say, oh! it must have been the orders of your Doctor or Vaidya to behave or eat like this!
With education and awareness of the next generation, the children of older parents started asking questions like how to eat the medicines and what about the progress! Time passed on and the doctor was still the only deciding Wiseman as to what was right for his or her patients. With the progress of the electronic media more and more people became medically aware. People started reading in newspaper or magazines about good or bad stories about doctors and the medical profession.…
