Stop Corruption or other nations could turn away Indian Doctors

Stop Corruption or other nations could turn away Indian Doctors

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Home/STOI/All-That-Matters/Stop-corruption-or-other-nations-could-turn-away-Indian-doctors-Fiona-Godlee/articleshow/44372779.cms

The above article is stinging to the Medical community that always says, 'Why us? See there'. That may have been successful in evading responsibility. But, is there no truth in it? Each medical professional has to answer for himself.

With respect to the article that is published in BMJ, our medical professionals would jump to blame the international community for having an agenda in tarnishing the image of the Indian medical professionals.

Few takeovers from the article:

·         The above article is looking at corruption in a different sense - Financial incentives. Ultimately, it’s a deficit graduate - whether it’s academic, care or credibility.
If some professions are of paramount importance and thus unique, quality should be adhered to. If you play number game, it would not be far when serious doubts on the medical qualifications would be raised by international community. It may be recapitulated that England derecognised Indian degree after a student failed to come up with bare minimum academic knowledge.

·         We often overlook or protect every negative under the pretext, 'our student', 'our college' 'our University' not realising that we also have meritorious 'our student'. We would wake up & fight for merit when meritorious 'our student' is ineligible to go abroad like it could happen here.  

·         Few sentences that stood out: ' Financial incentives is tolerated in India because of the extent of corruption across the whole country in every field'.

·         'We wish to create a counter balance by finding ways to reward persons who keep themselves free of conflict of interests to push the idea that they should be given positions of prominence'. I always felt the onus of the society should not only be to identify mistakes/corruption, but it is their duty to acknowledge/reward the good too!

Sharad M Tanga