Hippocratic, just a hypocricy?

Courtesy: 3 Idiots (if not any other source), we all know about this oath, an oath taken by doctors swearing to practice medicine ethically.
Generally speaking, every profession needs ethics, but of course, like if we engineers don't have them, the chemicals could react and blow up a chunk of earth or something! (okay, we don't even PLAY that big a role, most of us:p).
But why i personally feel its ever so important in the case of docs is cz its such a magnanimous thing, being able to heal someone, like the nature, like the Creator!

Seeing the things from scrap, first of all there a really few good medical colleges here, as in, almost ANYBODY can become an engineer, damn easily, cz even sweet shop owners can take you to that shore (no sarcasm!), but you can say generally that there aren't colleges enough to absorb all the students opting for medicine.

Secondly, its really really tough!!! Atleast from where a common man stands, all those 20 alphabet names of the diseases first, then the salts and the medicines do NOT seem an easy job to memorize, all the analyzing of situations and assessing where and what the problem is...phew!!!

Thirdly, they really really SLOG, big time. When i was in first year, in the Monday morning bus, when all we did was talk n dream, acquaintances from school in Govt. college Patiala used to lick their books from cover to cover...thats fine if done for a short time, but going thru the same ordeal for MBBS, MD, and these days DM also, is like, looooooooooooong!

So, at the end of it, what happens is, they just want to get thru things and make money. Most of the docs have a weird touch to them, though what specifically, i haven't been able to understand till now.
Yes, they don't have to be emotionally attached to their patients, cz that makes them somewhat relatively weak in performing their task(yes, we've all seen Munna Bhai also), but, there's a sort of MBA touch that creeps in them.
What am trying to say is definitely ( and desperately hopefully) no true for all the doctors, but i've seen it a lot...heard about it a lot....and consequently felt about it a lot...

A few things:
-My naani passed away bcz the dialysis machine she was put on was infected with hepatitis b and c. Now the dialysis machines have to be disinfected on a regular basis by the lower staff, who, illiterate and not understanding the importance of their duties (sorry for being so crude, but the bitterness somehow just creeps in) don't take them seriously. It is a very common affairs in hospitals, nurses and lower staff flirting around with each other(and yes, theres more than flirting also actually, but not going there). How M n B type, a good looking nurse and a tashan waala gel using wardboy, romancing while a few people die around!
And, i am not exaggerating, even though it might sound like that, in fact i could as well be moderating things down!
The scene with my naani happened when 4 out of her 5 children are in the medical field, what can be said for a layman, however well doing businessman he might be!

-Doctors do their make up, their breakfast after reaching their hospitals, when, that is, the authorities bother about time, since they were too busy to do that at home, and any patient waiting outside is not an issue, they are patients, after all

-If the evening time starts at 5.30, there's a high possibility that at 6 the doctor would be drinking tea and discussing general matters with his colleagues and chelas, not again considering the fact that there are ppl lining outside (maybe, he derives a pleasure in exercising superiority and authority over a situation from this, a thing thats making our world doubly worse than what it would otherwise be)

-Believe it or not, a lot of doctors, esp males, have extra marital affairs with their assistants, maybe to avoid the boredom that would result from treating ppl alone at workplace.

-Doctors are treated a Gods, respected a LOT, as in LOT LOT!!Any person who is a doctor will be given huge amounts of respect. For instance, a businessman earning thrice of a doc will not be able to extract as much respect out of a common man as an MBBS doctor would do!

-Doctors have a lot of aish, a lot! Medical Representatives, hired by pharmaceutical companies for publicizing their new medicines (with almost the same salts as the previous ones) used to give calenders and diaries with the medicines' name and pics on them when i was young. Now, they give anything, from packets of pulses to sponsoring foreign trips, only at one condition, that the doctor will subscribe their medicines as often as he can. Now, if i need a medicine with a salt A, and 5 tablets are priced at Rs 30,a nd the doc is giving me a "Europe tripped" medicine with salt A priced at Rs.120 for 5 tablets, loss kiska hua?
The MR got his commission from the company, the doctor toh had awesome fun, only i had to pay Rs 90 more...
Thats the whole point!!!


Medical field being medical field has an intrinsic complexity...unless you've studies the whole thing, you stand no where to say anything. As such a common person, however intelligent, will not be able to catch the loopholes and the point the unnecessary medicines that have been prescribed to him!
The biggest thing thats possible is the simplest one...use the internet!
You have a stye, read about it...read as much as possible, and the common parts have the highest probability of being correct...or find a doc who knows you, as in some relative or some good man, and there the degree of all this will be less.

In Ludhiana, which is considered a pretty fine place, there are a lot of hospitals. But, its said that the doctors at CMC will do less of such harquats, cz they are not allowed to practice medicine at their own clinics(the information has not been personally verified, but has high probability of being true).
What i have seen personally is doctors pulling patients to their individual clinics from the hospitals (where they charge more, of course) and the leaving the hospital job once the patient population has been satisfactorily built up.

I do acknowledge the fact that it is not AT ALL an easy job, becoming a doctor, but then those who become doctors must be having some feelings at the beginning of their 11th standard when they chose medical, they shouldn't let that spark die, bcz they are responsible for what life gives an individual, LIFE...

And seriously, am not pointing fingers or anything, there maybe a good huge amount of goodness out there, in fact i know there is, but the badness i have seen disturbed me, hence this post.

P.S Don't trust blindly, keep your eyes, ears, brain everything open, who knows, you might only be a customer for him, atleast make sure you get the best products!

P.P.S Hats off to those who read this long long article and reached till here. Sincere thanks!

May God Bless Us All:)