The July 2016 issue of MedicinMan with articles by Piyush Agarwal, K. Hariram, Vivek Hattangadi, Anjali Sharma, Chandan Kumar, RB Balakrishna and Pankaj Mehrotra
For commercial organisations, profits are important. But it cannot be 'at any cost' and certainly not at the cost of human life. As healthcare providers helping to mitigate the pain and misery of millions of human beings, we need to remember that charity begins at home.
If a business fails, it was an idea that didn’t work. If treatment fails – it must be a botch up. A broken gadget may be beyond repair, but not a patient in a doctor’s hands. From such ungraded expectations stems the potential for things to take an ugly turn.
An unwanted profession dealing with an unwanted condition, namely Ill health:
If possible, we would wish away death and diseases, hospitals and doctors. A hospital is not a holiday resort, but it too costs money. And the scenario of an adverse outcome like death simply becomes unacceptable.
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