i often think... how the world would be if each person did excatly what they're meant do, exactly how it's meant to be done. now the loophole here lies in the very idea of 'what one's meant to do'... they don't make it very clear when we come into life in the first place. ther're r certain thins that after we're 3-4 years old we can do quite reflexly, eat , breathe, sleep, etc etc.. it's the 'what one does' that we screw up. firstly, we're never really sure what we would like to do... secondly, when we do set our minds to one job, we get swayed either by the prospects of greener pastures or by colleagues. so in an attempt to cope with our wishes and desires and the social system... the work at hand is never done the way it's meant to be done; let alone discovering what we are really meant to be doing!!
i was sitting in the medicine opd... there were fewer patients today... so we were kind of free. i got talking with the chief resident about 'how medical education is going down'... a fairly common topic discussed and forgotten by people at all levels of the medical hierarchy almost everyday. i asked him what he thought of one going aboroad for the post graduation... he was absolutely comfortable with the idea. he held the view that becoming a doctor was about learning to treat a disease, it doesn't matter where you gained the knowledge, or where you treated the patient. fair enough. so can we just treat the west and think ourselves as having served mankind. with the number of indian doctors migrating abroad soon they will have one doctor for every 50-60 people. wonderful... almost like 'disease would be eradicated', what to talk of a handfull of the ones we've been after for sometime now. and in india and the like there will still be doctors, much fewer in numb...
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