Doctors should treat patients as parents.

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Folk medicine award presented to Bijapur doctorThursday December 22 2005 10:19 IST UDUPI: ‘Janapada Vaidyakeeya Samshodhana Kendra’ (Folk Medicine Research Centre) of Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Ayurveda, Kuthpadi-Udupi, presented ‘Janapada Vaidya Siri’ award to Vaidya Bheemaraya Ramanna Ingale from Salotagi, Indi, in Bijapur district, for his contribution to rural health.Former principal and professor of zoology, Poorna Prajna College, Udupi, Prof M Sudhakar Rao presented the award to Ingale.Ingale called upon budding ayurveda practitioners to treat their patients as their parents. “A doctor should not become rich by virtue of money or his attire, but by his treatment qualities. Once he speaks to a patient, half of the illness of his patient must be treated.

Such should be your power of diagnosis,” he said. He said use packaged food and water led to diseases like high BP or sugar.SDM College of Ayurveda principal Dr k Balakrishna Bhat, District Family Welfare Officer Dr B Mohandas Hegde, director of the centre Dr T Sridhar Bayari, junior scientist of the centre Dr Ravikrishna, Students’ Council president Akbar Ali, general secretary Shreya Shetty, Dr Vatsala Malya, Dr Rehana Ismath, Dr Prashanth, Dr Akshatha, Dr Shwetha Alva, Dr Ashwini and others were present. http://newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20051221235805 & Title=Southern+News+%2D+Karnataka & rLink=0 We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon

on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. -- General Omar Bradley