There has been a paradigm shift over the last 40 years when the focus has shifted from clinical Diagnosis to evidence-based Conclusions. There was s time when you could see doctors moving around with grace and pride with stethoscope around their neck in the corridors of Mandirs of health care delivery that is our hospitals. Earlier , there were hardly any big corporate hospitals and best among the best doctors were seen in public sector hospitals.
It was a strange and enchanting scene when you could decipher among the swelling crowds that who is the doctor? Person with clean Apron would be visible from a distance and the mere presence of the doctor would be reassuring ! More so, if the doctor was holding his or her Sudarshan chakra that is STETHOSCOPE, then firstly it meant that this particular doctor is on duty and would check so many parameters with this most famous instrument to…
