Doctors' Dilemma: To be or not to be!!...??

Doctors’ Dilemma: To be or not to be..?!?!
The recent attacks on doctors at Niloufer, Nayapur and ESI hospitals were utterly barbaric and malicious. Such violence perpetrated on healthcare workers must be condemned by every sane citizen. In this context, it is very appropriate that the Government has introduced an Ordnance making violence against healthcare workers a non-bailable offence. Let us hope that this landmark Ordnance will prevent such incidents.
The life of a doctor, especially working in poorly equipped Govt Hospitals and PHCs, has become miserable. Very often, patients are bought in a moribund state beyond salvage. The bad news provoke strong emotions in the bereaved family members. And inevitably the ire turns on the health personnel in front of them. And the junior doctors and the paramedical staff bear the brunt of the displaced anger. Doctors working in small clinics and private nursing homes in semi urban areas are even more vulnerable.
Presently the student wanting to join the once-noble profession finds himself or herself in a sticky situation. First the problem of clearing the EAMCET to obtain a good rank for a merit seat. Next the problem with the course being extended by one more year as rural posting is made compulsory post MBBS.The real woes of the student start with the struggle for a Post Graduate seat in the subject of his/her choice. Getting into a PG course may itself take 2 or 3 yrs. Then the problem of completing and clearing the 3yr MD/MS course. If the student wishes to pursue a Superspeciality course, he has to spend another 4 to 5 yrs for first getting the seat and then clearing the DM/MCh. The duration of studying becomes 17-18yrs, post Intermediate, which means he is around 33 to 35 yrs old by now. And then it is back to Square Zero --- Searching for a proper job, setting up private practice or going abroad for further training!!
In complete contrast, the BTech student is recruited by Software companies in campus interviews and starts earning Rs 30-40K by the age of 21yrs! So all the X class students prefer the safer stream of Engineering courses. In fact the percentage of Intermediate students with BiPC option has gone down to 10%. In the years to come, this fraction is bound to go down.
Maybe we don’t need so many doctors in India any more!! Maybe Western medicine must be practiced only in the West! Anyways, in the near future, the number of practicing qualified doctors will drop dramatically- especially in semi-urban areas and most of the population has to rely on quacks, crooks and swindlers. Ultimately it boils down to the UGWUD syndrome ---- yoU Get What yoU Deserve!!.....