A DYING RELATION: THE DOCTOR-PATIENT BOND

Let's accept the fact first, doctors are not next to God, they are there to help;

- Dr. Priyanka Roy

Things could be a bit easier after that.

Gone are the days when doctors were treated with respect. Now-a-days, they are being looked upon with envious eyes, ready to be attacked, any moment, they get a chance. Somewhere a paediatrician is being killed, somewhere a senior retired doctor has to face the fury of a mob, he bleeds to death; somewhere a fresh passout, barely a doctor fatally injured at the casualty by patient's attendants, somewhere a lady gynaec assaulted and the list goes on. Somewhere doctors are not spared even after death, they are denied cremation.A respect the Corona warriors deserved for embracing death for the sake of others, they are denied of that respect. The Indian Medical Association has reported that 75% of doctors face verbal or physical abuse in hospital premises and fear of violence was the common cause of stress in 43% doctors.

The every so often negative portrayal of doctors, the demeaning remarks on doctors by some influential people, these all have established (as it appears) a negative impact against the medical fraternity, in the mind of the people. Say, put a defamatory post against a doctor on Facebook and see the number of comments that follow. A doctor spends more than a decade in attaining his/her skills and he/she is questioned for the charge he/ she takes for his/her expertise. In which profession do we find all clean people, but does that mean that there's no clean people in any profession. But here, the wet and dry burn together. And the outcome is visible.