Intolerance means unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own. It also is defined as incapacity or indisposition to bear or endure. This word “Intolerance” has been used in many different contexts in India and often in healthcare specially regarding doctors and patients, where resort to violence from patients and relatives has been labeled as intolerance against doctors. In this short write-up, I wish to bring out the other aspect of this terminology “Intolerance”.
Intolerance of us as medical professionals towards the lacunae, the deficiencies, the gaps in the entire healthcare system. Tolerance regarding all these matters is causing so much harm to our own profession and to the society at large. Isn’t it then good to be intolerant to maintain and elevate the quality of healthcare delivery systems and to even enhance the health status of the people of…
