Metro Plus
Bangalore
Chennai
On doctors
C.K. MEENA'S piece (Carry on, doc, MetroPlus, June 9, 2004) sucks. It's a totally one-sided and cynical feature. To write sitting in the comforts of one's office is different from being out there — in a crowded dingy out-patient department with 60 patients thronging, or doing 10 dressings for stinking, gangrenous wounds in a surgical ward. You've no idea what we doctors go through.
It's true that not every doctor is a dedicated soul moved by suffering; but it's foolish to generalise. And if doctors throng in cities, what's wrong? Don't engineers throng the U.S.? Do MBA graduates work on developing small-scale industries in rural India? Don't bankers do everything possible to avoid a rural transfer?
If asking for basic amenities in life is a crime, if making some money to lead a comfortable living's a sin, then yes, we doctors are sinners.
Every doctor goes through a three-month training in PHCs, UHCs, rural health centres. They're not oblivious of the state of affairs in them. Those with the expertise are not going to sit in a PHC, render primary care and refer complicated cases elsewhere. They feel the need to specialise, to be able to render state-of-the-art-technology. Who wouldn't want to be up there?
Bosky Nair
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