According to the latest WHO data published in 2018 life expectancy in India is: Male 67.4 years, female 70.3 years and total life expectancy is 68.8 years which gives India a World Life Expectancy ranking of 125. As doctors, when a patient does well, we experience great satisfaction and don’t expect anything in return, similarly when a patient dies; we grieve as much as the family does. We think, we discuss about it with our colleagues, we talk about it in our meetings, why we could not save that life. We do this so that it does not happen to others.
Sometimes we go beyond our duties and expectations to save lives. We have to remember that we are NOT GODS and thus do not raise the expectations of the family members - no one is immortal, everyone has to die some day. There are many of us who forgo our food & drink and spend hours caring for someone who we have no relation to. We spend…
