Here’s what they don’t teach you in medical school: Self-defence. Perhaps they should. After all patients, or more accurately their relatives, are known to beat up doctors who bear bad news.
Think I’m exaggerating? Watch the YouTube video of the assault that landed Dr Rohan Mhamunkar of Dhule in the ICU. The doctor’s suggestion that a patient with severe head injuries should be taken to another hospital since his didn’t have a neurologist, provoked an attack by some 25 relatives. As the doctor falls back on an empty bed, you can see one of them repeatedly stomp on him.
The Dhule attack is one of four in the span of a week in Maharashtra. In Nashik, three doctors and a nurse were assaulted after a patient they brought in died of swine flu.
At Sion Hospital, Mumbai, relatives of a patient who died of chronic kidney failure beat up a first-year resident. The most recent attack on a senior woman pediatrician, also at Sion Hospital, took place after 4,000 resident doctors had already gone on strike, ironically, to demand protection.
“We’re only asking for safety measures,” says Dr Parthiv Sanghvi, secretary of the Indian Medical Association’s Maharashtra chapter. Specifically, the striking doctors want security, action against the culprits and restriction on the number of relatives accompanying patients.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
“Exemplary punishment,” adds Parikshit Tank, a doctor in private practice who is supporting his colleagues in government hospitals, “Would be a strong deterrent.” Right now, of the 53 cases of assaults on doctors in the past three years in Maharashtra, there have been zero convictions. “The message is, assault a doctor and get bail,” says Tank.
Source:-Hindustantimes
Think I’m exaggerating? Watch the YouTube video of the assault that landed Dr Rohan Mhamunkar of Dhule in the ICU. The doctor’s suggestion that a patient with severe head injuries should be taken to another hospital since his didn’t have a neurologist, provoked an attack by some 25 relatives. As the doctor falls back on an empty bed, you can see one of them repeatedly stomp on him.
The Dhule attack is one of four in the span of a week in Maharashtra. In Nashik, three doctors and a nurse were assaulted after a patient they brought in died of swine flu.
At Sion Hospital, Mumbai, relatives of a patient who died of chronic kidney failure beat up a first-year resident. The most recent attack on a senior woman pediatrician, also at Sion Hospital, took place after 4,000 resident doctors had already gone on strike, ironically, to demand protection.
“We’re only asking for safety measures,” says Dr Parthiv Sanghvi, secretary of the Indian Medical Association’s Maharashtra chapter. Specifically, the striking doctors want security, action against the culprits and restriction on the number of relatives accompanying patients.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
“Exemplary punishment,” adds Parikshit Tank, a doctor in private practice who is supporting his colleagues in government hospitals, “Would be a strong deterrent.” Right now, of the 53 cases of assaults on doctors in the past three years in Maharashtra, there have been zero convictions. “The message is, assault a doctor and get bail,” says Tank.
Source:-Hindustantimes
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