Medical Corruption : Solution very difficult to find.

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"Ramakrishna Chitrapu" <rkchitrapu

Wed Dec 28, 2005 3:55 pm

RE: Medical Corruption : Solution is very difficult to find.

 

Dear Jagannath Ji,

Thank you very much for your message. Well most of the views expressed by you

are just what I follow.

Ayurveda has just one draw back.. unfortunately we have no recent reseacrh

publication in reach of the common man. The Government of Madras had once

Medical Course some time back.. knownm as GCIM. Unfortunately the Allopathic

followers threw it out.

The type of corruption we are facing is multifaced.

1 The Allopathists want to defame the other medical practices like.

Ayurveda. Unani or Homeopathy. With the enormous amounts the big whales in the

Pharmacueticals available for research and publicity can practically detroy the

other forms of Medical practices.

2. In India Medical Studies cost a lot of money.. this clubbed with dowry

system peculiar to India.. are creating some peculiar problems.

3. I do not say that all the Doctors are corrupt. But I know cases where the

patient is not happy unless he is given an injection.. the doctors take

advatange. I know Doctors who sell their Doctors Samples not directly but

charging for the medicenes supplied or injections administered

4. The Corporate Hospitals have raised the cost of medication leaps and

bounds.

The rumours abound that

5 The Doctors prescribe all sorts of clinical test irrespective of their

necessity and they are hand in hand with the clinical laboratories sharing the

fees from the clinbical alboratories.

6 I also know first hand that quite a few Drug Stores every month calculate

the total sale by them against a doctor's prescription and calculate the

percentage and pay the doctor.

 

Regarding th points raised by you.. I regularily practice a little of yoga /

Meditation.

 

You said in your message a healthy mind in a healthy body... I am reminde of

a course that was conducted by Vivekanada Yoga Centre representavtives in

Jakarta. I attended the course. Being one of the senior persons and being the

India club Secretary it fell on me to sum up. After covering the subject of the

course, I just ended saying " Gone are the days when we used to say healthy mind

in a healthy body..we should say healthy mind gives you a healthy body free

from disease. The course director said it is a wonderful way of summing it.

After all.. Blood Pressure/ Diabetes, the major killers of the present day

world, are result of Stress, which can be controlled by an individual. Diabetes

in the initial stages can be controlled by diet and regulat excercise and

avoiding stress.

Acidity is caused in quite a few cases due to drinking water during the meals.

A book was published in Telugu by one Naturopathy Doctor about Water and how it

can control quite a few problems. According to him water which goes out of the

body is to be replaced in a systematic way. Normal human being needs to take

about 4 litres.. spread over morning, after noon and evening/ night. I tried it

and still follow certain of them.

 

There are two aspects of this corruption.. one the doctors in the profession

and other, the pharmacuetical manufacturers and of course the aviodable

Government interference.

 

The last and the most immoral one is the sale of organs.. in this apart from

the doctors, and the patients the middle men also come in.

 

If we want to eradicate the corruption there should be a multi pronged attack.

Best wishes

 

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In book of Ananatomy by Guy, prescribed to medical students , it is written in

preamble that a good doctor examines the patient clinically by his/her

experience and diagnoses the likely disease. Today doctors straight away

prescribe x-rays,blood tests and all sorts without genuine need at first

stage.This is beacuse of revised rules to have detailed history of patientin

record and also to get commission from network of laboratories that are minting

money. Even if you catch influenza it will cost you rs 5000 in Delhi minimum

for fees,tests and medicines for 7 days period. Or approx dollars 12, whre 30%

of Indians live below dollar a day income. Where are ethics? Secondly allopathy

is more suitable for acute diseases and infections and symptom release like pain

reliever spray in cricket ground. Muscle ligaments will take own time to heal

alongwith proper rest, position and noursihing high vitamin ,high protein diet.

Thus doctors should use holistic approach using all types of treatments

available. ]