How can we as a community of doctors, protect ourselves against the violence, as we take pride in holding scalpels and not guns? In what happened to a Mumbai doctor who recently took up a job in Dhule, was the most shocking, disgusting and depressing incidence, the doctor suffered for no apparent fault of his! I saw the video of the doctor getting brutally beaten and is now known to have suffered chest injuries, swollen eye, and severe injuries on skull and abdomen and is being suspected that he could lose vision in his left eye. Doctors are the wisdom personified.
Patients and families frequently seek advice from their doctors about life’s most intimate and important problems. In return, the ones they serve forget the limitation of a doctor “being a human being” and their own nature of being humans and “turn animals”! Being lawful in behavior is not a question here, being human is! We…
