I hail from the city where this tragedy took place. While the death of the patients is in no way acceptable, the way the local media has been hounding the doctors over this is also unacceptable. It was a very cowardly thing to do, undoubtedly, but the hospital authorities were probably more at fault than docs (who would be mostly the most junior on the staff, considering the fact that the blaze set off in the wee hours of the day) who fled for their lives.
I am not defending the docs who fled their posts, but just saying that the super-commercial system put in place by these private institutions do little to foster anything in the terms of loyalty. Hence when trouble brews, the docs are the first ones out the door. If one does not feel attached to his place of work, then that is what is to be expected.
And take it from someone who lives and works in the city of Kolkata/Calcutta, the state of the Govt run hospitals is probable even worse. And considering the fact that the patient load is several times of AMRI and the emergency response systems even more rudimentary, a tragedy of gargantuan proportions is in the making…
The problems run much deeper than can be seen from the fresh, glossy surface. Us “bottom-feeders” know it the best.
Dear Pranab: Thanks for your perspective on this. It’s really helpful to understand the for-profit mentality and how it affects professionalism (to say the least!).
My husband and i were very satisfied when Peter could deal with his web research via the precious recommendations he acquired while using the web page. It’s not at all simplistic to simply be giving freely thoughts which some others could have been making money from. And we understand we now have the website owner to give thanks to for this. The entire illustrations you made, the straightforward website menu, the relationships your site help to foster – it’s got everything great, and it is facilitating our son in addition to our family understand that idea is exciting, which is certainly highly fundamental. Thank you for all!
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Sign in nowI hail from the city where this tragedy took place. While the death of the patients is in no way acceptable, the way the local media has been hounding the doctors over this is also unacceptable. It was a very cowardly thing to do, undoubtedly, but the hospital authorities were probably more at fault than docs (who would be mostly the most junior on the staff, considering the fact that the blaze set off in the wee hours of the day) who fled for their lives.
I am not defending the docs who fled their posts, but just saying that the super-commercial system put in place by these private institutions do little to foster anything in the terms of loyalty. Hence when trouble brews, the docs are the first ones out the door. If one does not feel attached to his place of work, then that is what is to be expected.
And take it from someone who lives and works in the city of Kolkata/Calcutta, the state of the Govt run hospitals is probable even worse. And considering the fact that the patient load is several times of AMRI and the emergency response systems even more rudimentary, a tragedy of gargantuan proportions is in the making…
The problems run much deeper than can be seen from the fresh, glossy surface. Us “bottom-feeders” know it the best.
Dear Pranab: Thanks for your perspective on this. It’s really helpful to understand the for-profit mentality and how it affects professionalism (to say the least!).
-JS
My husband and i were very satisfied when Peter could deal with his web research via the precious recommendations he acquired while using the web page. It’s not at all simplistic to simply be giving freely thoughts which some others could have been making money from. And we understand we now have the website owner to give thanks to for this. The entire illustrations you made, the straightforward website menu, the relationships your site help to foster – it’s got everything great, and it is facilitating our son in addition to our family understand that idea is exciting, which is certainly highly fundamental. Thank you for all!