wrong procedures; massive over-billing by five-star hospitals; and overmedication, are rife. Despite a ghastly fire at a hospital in Kolkata that killed more than 100 people, nothing really happened to the owners of the hospital; it is back in business. Unfortunately, there is an unwritten code among doctors not to rock this gravy train. It is extremely hard for the families of patients to fight medical malpractices and get justice because they would simply not find a doctor to come forward and testify in court, as would be required.
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India had a very robust public health system before the revised medical curriculum incorporated public health into the MBBS syllabus. Public health is much more than the “social and preventive medicine’ that they study in classrooms. It is more inclusive, multidisciplinary.
Indian society looks up at the doctor with a great deal of awe and respect. It is essentially a hangover of the feudal arrogance that rules India even today. Indians give great importance to unchallenged authority and are willing to ‘donate’ more than a crore to win a backdoor entry into a medical college. I don’t think it makes economic sense. Nor is it driven by passion.