Most doctors who have gone through all this will consider this to be a wild exaggeration and claim that hospital training was among the fondest period of their lives. Of course- it is.
All the suffering I have written about happens only for a maximum of 18- 24 months. That too, it is expected and accepted with resignation. Only few will have any desire to see the deeper moral problem in having 'dog eat dog' system. Because after those few months, suddenly you are on the other side. To accept that the system is wrong means that you have accept your share of the work, stop harassing your Resident/ Intern and generally shape up. If this happens, for every Consultant, the number of patients managed per day will go down and income will reduce.
Thus this is like labour for them- short period of agony and longest payback of passing the buck. Therefore, I dont see how things can or will ever change.
Any person who wants to investigate the veracity of my report can use following methodology
1. take data of patient numbers and doctor numbers and do the maths
2. take a daily work recall of doctors at different levels and do the math using a proper statistical method
3. tabulate the actual number of months/ days in a year worked
4. fact finding through random sampling and personal interview
Also why are the problems so frequent here only? even in other states they have numbers and financial issues. both in the North as well as the South Doctors have much better work conditions, training schedules and pay as compared to Maharashtra. Time to ponder why?
All the suffering I have written about happens only for a maximum of 18- 24 months. That too, it is expected and accepted with resignation. Only few will have any desire to see the deeper moral problem in having 'dog eat dog' system. Because after those few months, suddenly you are on the other side. To accept that the system is wrong means that you have accept your share of the work, stop harassing your Resident/ Intern and generally shape up. If this happens, for every Consultant, the number of patients managed per day will go down and income will reduce.
Thus this is like labour for them- short period of agony and longest payback of passing the buck. Therefore, I dont see how things can or will ever change.
Any person who wants to investigate the veracity of my report can use following methodology
1. take data of patient numbers and doctor numbers and do the maths
2. take a daily work recall of doctors at different levels and do the math using a proper statistical method
3. tabulate the actual number of months/ days in a year worked
4. fact finding through random sampling and personal interview
Also why are the problems so frequent here only? even in other states they have numbers and financial issues. both in the North as well as the South Doctors have much better work conditions, training schedules and pay as compared to Maharashtra. Time to ponder why?
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