General Practitioners (GPs) are difficult to find nowadays. All fresh medical graduates are struggling for post-graduate seats, and nobody wants to take up general practice. There is a common perception amongst the doctors that, without speciality, one is nothing. It is no longer possible to remain a GP and survive in medical practice. The graduates who do not manage a post-graduate seat, either take to the administration or become facilitators for patients, as being a GP is no longer a viable option.
The education lobby is promoting specialisation and sub-specialisation to further its interest. Some influential doctors too are openly canvassing for more post-graduate seats. The result of this ill-directed campaign is that the government also has succumbed to the bait and made it mandatory that all medical colleges run post-graduate courses. The focus today is to give a post-graduate…
