Administrators, who have never treated a patient in their lifetimes, but control treatment of thousands of patients. The biggest tragedy to the medical profession in present era, causing discouragement and demoralization of medical profession.
Their role should not have been more than facilitators, but they have become medical administrators. They are so distant from the ground reality. To control the health system, administrators have a tendency to pretend that shortcomings in the patient care can be rectified by punishing the doctors and nurses.
The vulnerability that is intrinsic to the doctors’ working makes them sitting ducks, an easy target for harassment and punishments and is exploited by everyone to their advantage. Administrators use this vulnerability to suppress them. It is used by media and celebrities who projected themselves as Messiah for the cause of patients, and sell their news and shows by labeling the whole community of doctors as dystopian community based on just one stray incident.
The blame for deficiencies of inept system, powerful industry, inadequate infrastructure and poor outcomes of serious diseases is shifted conveniently to doctors, who were unable to retaliate to the powerful administrative machinery.
The demonstration of the cleft that separated doctors from the actual overpowering controlling medical industry and administrators is not given, in order to maintain the prejudice with its dangerous bias towards doctors, who are in forefront and are visible to public. Clearly separating the role of health workers and the hidden administrators would not only settle the matter, but is actually essential to project the reality. The correct perception of two fundamentally different components would reveal a real gulf and would help to address the core issues.
A wish to govern, regulate and punish the medical professional by administrators is not new. Hammurabi 4000 years back had initiated to write the cruel rules of the game, which possibly initiated a change in the global perception and regulatory system and formed the basis for cruel regulation in radical and unprecedented ways.
In a quest to control this difficult area, which encompasses life and death, deals with extremes of poverty and riches, mortality and morbidity, pain and relief, sadness and happiness, smiles and sorrows and uncountable emotions, intertwines with financial aspects and the amalgamation of intricacies of science with legal complexity, doctors are burdened with over-regulation and administrative pressures.
Consequently the doctors are the sufferers, as they feel enslaved and suffocated. But ultimately who would be the sufferer, does not need an Einstein brain to guess.
14 doctors resigned, alleging harassment and misbehaviour by administrative officials.
More than a dozen doctors posted in rural hospitals in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh collectively resigned, alleging harassment and misbehaviour by administrative officials.
The doctors, numbering 14, posted at community health centres and primary health centres submitted their resignation letters to the chief medical officer (CMO) of the district on Wednesday. Speaking to the media, one them said that while their teams would work on the field from noon to 4-5 p.m., isolating COVID-19 positive cases in their home, distributing medicine and carrying out sampling, the local SDM would summon them after that seeking a report of their work. The doctors would have to drive back several km to the tehsil from their place of work just to “prove that they are working,” said the doctor. “Despite continuously working, it has been made to appear like we are not working and that due to this, the COVID-19 situation is going out of control,” he said. The doctors also alleged that they were not provided sufficient drug supply from the government and often faced verbal harassment at the hands of the CMO and the CMS. If the field teams were unable to trace down patients because of submission of wrong phone numbers and addresses, they should not be held responsible for it, said the doctors.
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