EARLY MORNING DOCTORS AND LATE NIGHT COURTS

The lecturers from Medical colleges will soon be barred from private practice. So is reported in the Times of India. Medical science is continuously progressing. It is impossible to keep tab of the new progress made just by referring to books, periodicals and papers. Nothing can be as effective to gain first hand knowledge as a patient treated personally.

It is sin to take ill on weekend. Dispensaries are closed. Gone are the days when doctors used to pay home visit at nominal charge. Little chance is of medical help unless you go to hospital. There also the specialists from hospitals are usually gone away from city for trips and picnics having planned to complete their schedule during 5 day week. On many occasions the hospitals are left to the competence of para medical staff. We hear regularly cases of the relatives of patients attacking doctors for alleged negligence. Medico-Legal cases are on the rise. We also hear regularly bogus doctors detected. There is a bee line to get attachment in big popular hospitals as specialist All this happens in the cities and metropolitan areas and on other side there is dearth of general practitioners in rural area.

Definitely it is no case for ban to practice. As it is the medical service is poor and poorly distributed. Efforts must be for more primary medical services at more places and for more time. A patient would like to visit the doctor for some body ill at home and go to duty with peaceful mind. We have banks working at the time convenient to the customer. The floweriest, the vegetable wholesale market, the milkmen do their work in early morning. Why cannot some doctors do the same ?

Allow those lecturers to practice part time at early morning and take lectures full time. Perhaps they will overtake other medical practitioners who any way are available till quite late in the evening. The government mooted bare foot doctors in rural area. Some relief can also be given to over crowded cities by this way.

The government is also mooting the idea of courts in double shift. So we may end up having early morning doctor and late night advocates. There may a case of a same person doing medical practice in the morning and legal practice in the evening. Why not so long he does not become robber by the day?

Arvind Khare
Khare_am@yahoo.com