[nukkad] Fw: [nukkad] Hospital razed after Sainik dies

["Mahesh chandra Gupta" <>]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. M.C.Gupta" <healthlaw@now-india.net.in>
To: "Nelson Fernandes" <nelson.fernandes@patni.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [nukkad] Hospital razed after Sainik dies


> As a doctor, my immediate thought on reading this news is the way things
> have changed. There is a full swing of the pendulum. There was a time when
> doctors were spared on the battle front even by enemy troops. In the
civil,
> they were almost worshipped as demi-gods. The cancer of commercialization
> has changed all this. The state does not grant any special concessions to
> doctors now. Educational fees are astronomical. After graduation, jobs are
> not available. For practice, a doctor has to procure premises at
commercial
> rates, even pay water and electricity charges at commercial rates. Doctors
> are liable to prosecution in civil, criminal and consumer courts for
alleged
> medical negligence, which may be wrongly conceived, even motivated. They
are
> vunerable to public and political wrath. The investment in medicine
[money,
> effort and time] is immense compared to returns. A comparative chart with
> other professions on the basis of earning per hour spent [ comparing
> comparables] would show that the E/P ratio is lowest in medical profession
> in India. Doctor parents now-a-days often advise their wards, especially
> girls,  against pursuing medical studies. Why should they do otherwise,
when
> the public, lead by political leaders, is out for the blood of the doctors
> and hospital staff? Doctors  do not want to be worshipped, but they do not
> want to be witch-hunted either.
>
> MC Gupta
> Aug 28
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> From: "Nelson Fernandes" <nelson.fernandes@patni.com>
> Subject: [nukkad] Hospital razed after Sainik dies
>
>
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> >
> > Shiv Sainiks set the Singhania Hospital in Thane on fire on Sunday
> evening,
> > following the death of Anand Dighe at the hospital.
>
>


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