Communicating Medical Errors Re: # 2

I began my first two sentences with ' the BASIC problem...'

And I do believe that this is linked to the causes of most of the problems in health care.

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Communicating Medical Errors The BASIC problem in healthcare as a whole, begins with the lack of qualified doctors - whether in India, or abroad.

Unless this aspect is addressed first - by dismantling the license regime under MCI, healthcare in India will be found wanting.

Rs.1.5 crores! - for a PG seat in Radiology! 1.5 followed by seven zeroes!
Rs.1.3 crores! - for a PG seat in Orthopaedics!

Imagine! Can YOU pay Rs. 20000 Every single Day for FULL three years to get a post graduate degree? Are you out of your mind?
And - Is it REALLY worth the price? This is After your already spending princely sums of money and valuable time, for MBBS!

Where did things go so horribly wrong, and who are the anti-nationals, ruthlessly gaining from this?

WHY do we Indians still have to manage with a pathetic doctor-population ratio of 1:1800, ( 1 : 400 in the UK and 1 : 300 in Germany)? Why do we not even THINK of training more doctors for unforeseen natural calamities like a swine flu or a mass casualty?

ANTICIPATED DOCTOR SHORTAGE :

A DEVELOPING India in 2025, is going to require vastly more doctors - because Indian doctors will also be attracted by the massive shortage that is predicted in the developed countries ( underline )!

India is also projected to be the future diabetic capital of the world, not to mention TB, HIV, heart disease and a variety of other disease!

In 1994, the JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) predicted a SURPLUS of 165,000 doctors by 2000. This turned out not only to be a bad prediction, but probably intended to protect the careers of the existing doctors. Unless more medical students begin training soon, the supply of physicians will begin to shrink in about 10 years when doctors from the baby boom generation retire in large numbers.

And these doctors will be from those scarce ones trainedfrom Indian private medical colleges.

REASONS FOR SHORTAGE IN INDIA :

Historically, strikes by medical students in the 70's and 80's against increasing medical seats, coupled with the government lifting the ban on Indian doctors working abroad, guaranteed the huge shortage of doctors.

This acute shortage lead, in the 90's, to a huge premium for seats in the available 'private' medical colleges. This coincided with allegations of huge sums of corruption money to the Medical Council of India ( MCI ), responsible for granting recognition to private colleges. While whole districts go without even a single specialist!

DOCTOR-PRIVATE COLLEGE-MCI PROTECTIONIST NEXUS/MAFIA :

For Indians, becoming a doctor ( or any other training ) is a means to get a fortune, rather than a profession. While a doctor in the west may earn 2 or 3 times the Per Capita Income of his country, an Indian doctor expects to earn 100 times the PCI!

Look at private medical colleges - Most of them (unethically) manipulate figures of infrastructure and patients in order to gain points for recognition.

SRM College ( private ) / Out patients : 1,000 PD / 16 MS ortho seats / 1.5 C per seat,
General Hospital ( govt.) / Out patients : 12,000 PD / 3 MS ortho seats/ 1 L per seat

These figures can be interpreted in either of these TWO ways :

1. The chances of getting a seat in a private medical college is far in excess of getting one in a government college ( with vastly better infrastructure )

2. The government colleges are deliberately not being allocated more seats, since that will harm the prospect of the MCI making money.

The MCI also discourages Dip.N.B courses, since that too harms its earning potential. The chief of the corrupt MCI, of two decades, called Ketan Desai, is worth 2000 crores already! While politicians PROMISE medical colleges in every district, 99% of this is NOT converted to REALITY because of this obstructionist body called MCI. Most district hospital infrastructure is not used to provide any training.

COMPARE this with the situation in western countries, where PG courses are available EVEN in their district hospitals ( where the clinical material is hardly good in comparison with those in our government hospitals).

Recently, MCI has announced a new system, by which Assistant Professors would have had to publish at least 2 articles in 'indexed' journals, to qualify to become Associate Professor. While this may seem on the face, to be a correct step, actually,
it is meant to create a bottle neck to becoming a Professor ( and therefore allowing more students to be taught under him ). How this happens, is because of the paucity of the 'suggested' journals. Some of them are published just 4 times a year. Therefore, theoretically, only some 100 Assistant Professors will 'qualify' to become associate! Since even Doctors are unaware of these developments, who will protest?

GENDER INEQUALITY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION ( AS WITH OTHER JOBS ) :

There is a huge gender bias here, as everywhere else. The number of female medical graduates today far exceeds the fertile imagination of any androphobic of 10 years ago! For almost 2 out of 3 medical seats are taken by females in the western world today! Much of this bias is defended on the illogical ground that it 'takes a woman doctor to treat a woman!' Unless males wake up to this bias, ( along with the way society is structured against them ), this will not change!

This is in keeping with the male-phobic trends in society, relegating men to menial jobs, while staking claim on managerial jobs. The justification is a grudge against males for the progress they have made as a gender.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/city/chennai/HC-upholds-govts -decision-not-to-admit-boys-in-nursing-course-/articleshow/4912815.cms
http://n ews.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8077083.stm
( WAKE UP, MALE DOCTORS! SPEAK UP! )

The poor educational infrastructure is not limited to medicine alone. For example, even though it takes just a few months to train a pilot, most Indian pilots demand a pay far in excess of one lakh a month.

What has gone wrong with our education system as a WHOLE? Will the government sit up and take notice?

Three Poems by Allama Iqbal Re: # 2

Your reply only show the IGNORANCE that is prevalent on anti-male attitudes and male rights.

Articles like the one here, are among those routinely used by women groups to brainwash the general public.

Worse, is the refusal to accept that an anti-male attitude exists at all. And since the media has joined hands with women groups to brainwash the general public, there are no interested companies willing to 'sponsor' awareness creating adverts on male rights!

Our society has become so anti-male, that it cannot even SEE it happen before its very eyes!

WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!

Forgive n Forget
Re: # 6 and #10,

Both your replies only show the IGNORANCE that is prevalent on anti-male attitudes and male rights. Worse, is the refusal to accept that an anti-male attitude exists at all. And since the media has joined hands with women groups to brainwash the general public, there are no interested companies willing to 'sponsor' awareness creating adverts on male rights!

Our society has become so anti-male, that it cannot even SEE it happen before its very eyes!

WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!

Forgive n Forget

WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!

Three Poems by Allama Iqbal The PRO WOMAN ( AND ANTI MALE ) attitudes of the important authors of the sub continent ( mostly falling in either of the two insecure categories - older male / father of girl/s ), is the cause of the prevailing anti male attitudes and perceptions that are so prevalent in our society ( SO massively prevalent, that it is not even RECOGNISED! ).

The media regularly publicises these material. Crimes against women - such as rape, are HYPER COVERED - to the degree that a basic hate develops towards ALL males!
Even cinemas regularly showcase a male comedian who gets beaten to applause from the audience!

Needless to say, these attitudes are not just reprehensible. They are medieval, unfortunate, illogical, and above all, inhuman.

WAKE UP, MALES! SPEAK UP!

When Will You Return? Re: # 42

Dear Mr. Sohail,

I am glad you recognise that ( theoretically at least ) psychotherapists need psychotherapists! But recognising is different from actually practicing.

Unfortunately, you have this attitude of being righteous. This attitude does no good to anyone at all. EVERYONE wants to be 'right'. But this is no ones MONOPOLY.

As far as my memory goes, you did say you 'look after' 2 girls(?). I assumed they were your daughters, though you may want to clarify this issue.

Finally, I would like to be frank with you on this : Being a psychot, does not give any psychot, the rights to advice other human beings on what 'humanity' really is. This only makes them appear egoistic, since no one can really claim a monopoly on the truth.

And finally, I would repeat my earlier statement : most of the anti-male culprits fall in either of the two categories - older males ( with a mind culture of the 60s and 70s ) and males with daughters ( natural biases of a guardian ). The worst offenders of course, deny this too.

And the worst offenders are males ( being natural androphobics ). And of course, counsellors ( and psychotherapists ) who deny their anti-male attitudes at best, or deny the very existence of androphobia at worst.

When Will You Return?
Re: # 40

Dear Mr. Sohail,

It is an unfortunate fact of life, that most androphobics do not even consider themselves to be one. This is because male-hatred is IN BUILT into our system - indeed our conscience.

The worst offenders are males ( being natural androphobics ). And of course, counsellors ( and psychotherapists ) who deny their anti-male attitudes at best, or deny the very existence of androphobia at worst.

And most of the culprits fall in either of the two categories - older males ( with a mind culture of the 60s and 70s ) and males with daughters ( natural biases of a guardian ). The worst offenders of course, deny this too.

I your case though, I must appreciate your willingness not to be provoked. But I would have genuinely appreciated it if you were also willing to be unbiased.

When Will You Return? Re: # 38

Sohail,

Are you a mental therapist and not a 'mere' counsellor ( thats what your CV says ) anymore?

MOST male androphobics (including counsellors like yourself ), fall into two categories - the older males, and those with daughters. And should NOT be using the word 'therapist' at all.

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Re: # 30

You seem to be entertaining a number of fantasies about divorces. There are too many facts that need to be publicised. For eg. divorce rates are skyrocketting and evidence shows that most are initiated by wives- and much of this is induced by the alimony ( YET ANOTHER abuse of male rights ).

Firstly, Much of this is inspired by the MEDIA, which. ( like chowk ). does not allow 'pro'-male articles to be written ( unlike the encouragement for even figments of imagination that favour the women as a gender )

How about... not getting married at all?

Since those women are so capable, earning a decent income, they can jolly well be the strong, independent women they proclaim themselves to be and don't marry.

Or is it ultimately about control? Just want a man to direct your naggings at? A pussified, low-earner, house husband to lord over 24/7?

Count me out. I'm going my own way. There are easier, cheaper ways to get sex, and marriage is not one of them. If I don't need marriage for sex, I don't need marriage at all.

And that's exactly what very many of them are doing. Marriage rates are plummeting, due primarily to women's independence from men, financial and otherwise.

Both men and women know that marriage is a bad proposition today. For women, because it's hard to find high earners relative to them. For men, because if they are a high earner, their assets will be stripped by Woman and State in Divorce.

The real "marriage strike" is that started by feminists in the 1960s when they told us "destruction of marriage is the prime goal of our movement" and when they said that career and independence trumps all.

SICK OF THE MALE BASHING BY THE MEDIA? SAY 'NO' TO THE SILENCE!

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When Will You Return? Re: # 27

You idiot!

When Will You Return? Re: # 25

You idiot! It is a wake up call for everyone, including you!

When Will You Return?

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When Will You Return? Re: # 22

HA HA HA ahmed madani saheb,

One might be tempted to argue with you, but considering your eccentricity, those who wrgue with you might be considered eccentrics themselves.

Anyways, this Sohail creep ( with male hating chowk editorial ), has proved to be a male hater beyond doubt. And in an age when we cannot even decipher what misandry is, we let this moron pass by unchallenged.

However, males need to wake up to the dangers of marriage as a trap. When women are there, willing to give sex for free or for a small charge, it is high time mens rights unions were formed. MEN NEED TO BE WOEKN UP TO THE TROJAN HORSE ( SEX ) THAT MARRIAGE REALLY IS!

When Will You Return? Only FOOLS believe in the righteousness ( or longevity ) of marriage. Marriage today is DEAD in the west. And it is a matter of TIME before Indian male activists found the funding to make Indian males aware of the same too.

WOMEN marry for money; MEN marry for sex.

This rule applies to most women and most men. 99% to be precise. Anti-male counsellors like Sohail ( with a couple of unmarried daughters to explain the bias ), notwithstanding

WAKE UP, LAZY MALES! SPEAK UP!