Lifesaving Doctors are afraid for their own lives. Violence against doctors by patients’ relatives has been on the rise in India. In the latest incident, a doctor was brutally beaten by a number of unidentified men in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur District on Sunday. Video shows the crowd beating the doctor mercilessly. The assault was a result of delay in the arrival of hospital ambulance. Yes, that small a reason!
Now, is it the doctor’s or even ambulance driver’s fault? In a country like India where people don’t follow the traffic rules, an ambulance arriving on time is close to a miracle. How can patient’s family blame the doctor in-charge for this delay? Is it a good enough reason to beat a doctor to pulp? “Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!” - Gerard Way This is just one of the many incidences that the medical community has faced recently and has led…
