No sooner a Doctor or a medical team gets assaulted, medical forums are abuzz with comments, finger pointing, and ire-venting. Doctors are at a loss to understand how to tackle such situation and some suggestions by learned doctors are as laughable as Laurel & Hardy's antiques. Be that as it may, I have been watching this tense situation since a decade and I have amended my perspective and way of medical practice. My changed perspectives and observations: The medical profession is NOT a Noble profession.
The 'nobility' of a profession is decided bilaterally and is not a self-declared indictment. A Standard 7t'h class CBSE textbook had a whole page devoted to illuminating young impressionable minds as to how hospitals overcharge and why doctors are looters and derelicts. The general public has the same impression. Hence, the day I stopped believing myself as 'Noble', is the day when I…
