Medical Profession is in Dilemma
Medical man is no longer fountain of all medical wisdome, or repository of occult secrets. Internet has changed the status. Our role in medical landscape is fast changing, to be a guide for solving a health issue.
Concordance (No decision about me without me) and cafetaria approach is fast coming up as a tool for shared decision making & to decrease medical conflicts.
Consumer movement is gaining strength. And rightly so. Health care consumees are also waking up BUT many a times cross their lakshman rekha.
Material values are dictating corporate culture. High end medicare is cost intensive. Health care in general is also becoming costlier & is going beyond paying ability of majority. This is one of the major reasons for rural debt, mortgage of tangible assets and withered faces.
We as society, ill afford facing reality. Expectations from health sector are high, while government views health care as non-prodoctive expenditure. Only 0.9% of GDP is spend on Health. This translates to merely eyewash medicare. Priorities are misplaced.
Patients are now impatient to see favourable results.
Costly medical education for majority & dependance on costly medical equipments, has made this a high investment area, expecting proportionate returns.
Doctors are fast loosing their halo of moral armour, which used to be their protection shield.
Media is more commercial and sold out to the rich and the mighty. They appear to sell their pen to the way there political mastets or else TRP dictates them. A honest journalist is found suffocate, while fighting for freedom of press.
We the doctors of this country are soft targets. We are intimidated, interfered, infringed and thrashed on duty. Our kiths and kins and even selves are kidnapped for ransom. Our hard earned money and property are ablazed and damaged...... The list of atrocities is long.
No surprise brain drain attracts doctors, for brain drain is better than brain in the drain. If not attended with sense of urgency, merit will stop coming to this profession. In fact it has already started. The quality of new medical graduates and post graduates is an area of darkness.
We need to identify various concerned cluster of issues, create teams to examin & analyse each of their aspects and spell out with effective action plan for positive change.
Just blaming social intolerance is not going to solve the problem. I see, social intolerance to mount further, like in all other social sectors, to add insult to injury.
A early wakeup call is necessary, before it is too late.
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