On June 2, 2016, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court decreed that doctors at Lucknow's medical college would pay for the death of patients caused by their four day strike. As per the national daily, about 350 junior doctors protested against fresh admissions in PG courses, based on additional marks to candidates of provincial medical health services who had served in rural areas. Seemingly, the draconian attitude towards doctors that keeps reflecting in the government has now infested the judiciary.
Being an addition to the long list of measures suggesting the unfairly partial treatment with doctors among other professionals, this stand of the judiciary not only casts aspersions on our concept of democracy but also defies the implied norms of a civilised human society. There's no denying of the fact that a career in medicine comes with great accountability. Their…
