Frederick FN Noronha wrote: Episodic evidence (experiences with the GMC, for instance) are hardly what we can base our arguments on.
For instance, I almost died of DIPHTHERIA in the Goa Medical College (shortly after its Escola Medica) days in the mid-1960s. My kid had his tongue neatly healed with minimum fuss earlier this decade. So did my daughter when it came to dealing with a foot accident. But are we comparing ORANGES and ORANGES? Or just trying to make our own (biased) political point? COMMENT: 1: Thank You FN for comparing a ( comparatively recently) serious immunisable-against illness with (at least in the second example of yours ) an accidental one. 2: Yes, yours is the classic example of APPLES and ORANGES. 3: NO, the criticism of the "cow shedification" of the GMC facilities in 'recent' times is NOT a political point. 4: Filth, cats and dogs (or for that matter crows and unchanged blood-stained sheets) have NO place INSIDE a hospital. (The blood being from a previous patient, the situation being a non-emergent on) 5: You would do well to review your own exposé (despite its poor research and co-relationship to medical reality and other flawsy) on GMC that you submitted for publication in the Goa Today. jc
