R-G-Kar-hospital-Doctors-exploited-injustice-moral blackmail

#Kolkata-R-G-Kar-murder case has exposed the hardship of doctors in present era.  Working with routine injustice whole those years looks trivial as compared to this incident. But strangely, still the doctors of R G Kar hospital are facing a kind of moral blackmail. To continue the protest for their genuine demands is getting difficult. Even when justice is still far and distant as it can be, they may face punitive action of worst kind. There is only a faint hope of real justice left although ‘token justice’ of temporary nature may be a possibility at the best.

           Doctors are the only community who face worst kind of moral blackmail from governments and courts to end protest, even in case of blatant and cruel injustice as in R G Kar hospital.

Overall, a complex scenario for doctors. There is increasing discontentment amongst doctors because of  complex and punishing system. They are bound by so many factors that they finally end up at the receiving end all the time. They are under Hippocratic oath and therefore expected to work with very high morality, goodwill and kindness for the sufferings of mankind and dying patients.  They are also supposed to maintain meticulous documentation and also supposed to work under norms of  medical industry. They are supposed to see large number of patients with fewer staff and nursing support while still giving excellent care in these circumstances. And if these were not enough, the fear of courts and medico-legal cases, verbal threats, abuses, and physical assaults and show of distrust by patient and relatives further makes working difficult. Additionally, there may be bullying by certain administrative systems at places, who use pressure tactics to get their own way.

In the present circumstances, when doctors have become doubtful about the advice for choosing medical career, some are naïve enough to spend millions on securing an expensive medical college seat.  Problems faced by doctors are not only innumerable but are also so exceedingly complex that they are difficult to be analysed. Doctors feel so disgusted   about the entire system that they do not encourage their children to take up this profession which until now was one of the coveted ones, there must be something going terribly wrong with the profession.

More of a law and order issue, the physical assault on doctors reflects that they are serving an uncivilized society.  Such news is viewed by medical community anxiously and is definitely a poor advertisement for younger generation to take medicine as profession. The medical students need to think, why they wish to enter medical profession in such an unsupportive environment?

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