NEED TO CHOOSE AN ETHICAL DOCTOR?

Dr.T.V.Rao MD I was an educator in Medicine for many decades, many be just Microbiology but I see many facts

around where I live, in last 3 decades there is an enormous degeneration in Medical education with

privatization of Medical, dental and nursing colleges, most of the Medical council of India control on

a medical college is just for two days in a year and rest of the year is a free time for many with

qualifications and senior who are indispensable for running the show of Medical business, However

the most coveted professional education in India is in the field of Medicine. As many parents wish

make their children talents without any inclination to study medicine and hard work, It is also the

most expensive and of the longest in duration. The chances of an Indian becoming a doctor is less

than one in a thousand. But the availability and the dependability of this one person could make life

and death differences to the remaining 999 it just one person is deciding the future health of the

people in the nation. (THE HINDU) They are entitled to expect that this privileged medical graduate

is well equipped to meet their health needs. We need to believe in the possibility of a healthier

society where everyone will receive appropriate health care according to need. The proposed

changes in medical education alone cannot take us to that day. But without these changes, we are

never likely to achieve affordable, accessible and universal health coverage. Cost, feasibility or

possible lowering of quality are not the impediments to these long overdue changes in medical

education. What is required is a clear understanding of these issues by the general public, sustained

political will and a willingness on the part of the medical profession to embrace this social

responsibility. We can no longer leave it to the medical profession by itself to address this issue. Civic

society and the media need to add their voice to those of concerned medical activists to bring about

these quite practicable changes. A person who cannot read a simple slide can get a degree MD in

Microbiology or Pathology, combination of skills and attitudes does exist; As a Microbiologist I can

definitely say even the people generated in the India’s top most institute continues to great

manipulators as their bosses are real generators of many fraudulent research, I too become one

among the system, to tolerate all vagaries as I cannot be a lone wolf but for many of us who entered

private medical education or medical college, that exhilaration gradually faded as we were

confronted with the realities of building our survival. We moved from learning new things every day,

to repeatedly diagnosing doing same work in the laboratory and treating the same things day in and

day out. Our focus changed from growing our knowledge to growing our ideas to survive in the

system, to make as much money faster and easier over time, as we all became busy in our

professional and private lives, learning and educational activities were placed under pressure. When

I was student there were few MBBS teachers who were taking tuitions outside the hours, and now

the situation is worse even highly qualified teachers and professors concentrate on tuitions to gain

much money paying the least attention to their work in the colleges they work. As the trends

continue with more medical colleges, we will have least talented teachers and very bad new

generation of students, as they learn neither ethics nor skills and real dumps in the system. I think

it’s time for some of self-consciousness Doctors, to rethink what is our purpose as Doctors We will

also need to upgrade and update the skills and competence of the tens of thousands of physicians

who are already engaged in primary/secondary care in the government and private sectors, often

with inadequate or outdated skills in family medicine. Today nobody goes a bigger hospitals or

teaching hospitals without the suspicion whether they are exploited without a disease and many

humans think and pray god more than yesterday as they wish not the little guinea pigs to be

experimented, Without some quite feasible changes in medical education, we are never likely to

achieve affordable, accessible and universal health coverage I wish many to think where we stand

with MBBS qualification going with many sincere efforts and lots of costs involved in gaining the

Degrees. I HAVE LITTLE TO PROTEST THE REAL GUINEA PIGS ARE OUR PATIENTS, AND POOR

PATIENTS It only means as we can do anything with human beings, when one is poor and helpless

you are forced to accept what the people in power can suggest the great tragedy to Medical

education is lack of ethical teachers as people live by power and position and not contributing to

system they work, It is just the system created for money and for comfort of some senior professors

who live by their glory than thinking about the todays education and future of medicine, For me, as

the years went by, I realized that I truly missed the collegial atmosphere of peer-to-peer exchange

atmosphere of a Medical college where the ethics have no role to play making faster money is game

of Life like every profession in India. In spite of many deteriorations patient search for more ethical

doctor than mere specialist to treat them. Anyhow it is going to be order in future as everyone has

value to his own life.

HOWEVER I AM CONFIDENT THAT WE ARE CREATING LEAST TALENTED AND SKILLED MEDCIAL AND

POST GRADAUTES WHO CAN BE WORSE THAN MANY OF US TODAY

HOWEVER IT IS POSSIBLE TO ENCOURAGE AND CORRECT THE PRESENT SYSTEM IF MANY THINK

INCLUDING MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA ROLE OF MEDCIAL EDCUATION IN RELATION TO HUMAN

DIGNITY ECOURAGING ACADEMIC STANDARDS ETHICKS RATHER THA MERE COUNTING OF MANY

EMPTY HEADS WHICH DO NOT EXIST IN REAL SECENIRIO

IT IS TIME AND NEED TO CHOOSE AN ETHICAL DOCTOR? OR LIFE AT RISK

Rethinking medical education in India P. Zachariah. The Hindu

Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology Freelance writer