On 6 Jul 2011, at 13:07, Anish <[email protected]> wrote:
>> We have two surgeons in the family; both >of them are now practising in the >> US, and >last week, when they bemoaned the state >of facilities in India, we >> had a raging >debate on why they could not have come >back with their >> acquired qualifications and >worked in India. It was only a debate, of >> >course, because I respect their personal >decisions...so, actually, when I >> find people >like you or Vivek coming back, and >working in the system, I am >> really happy to >see it happening. I respect Shiv Sastry for >coming back >> after his FRCS and working >in Bangalore. > > Have to admit from my class in med school around 40% is in India rest are in > different parts of the world. I admit to having left the country, largely > thanks to very rigid system. I look forward to a day when I could go back to > India, when folks like me who are unconventional are more tolerated and their > skill set put to good use. You realise this is a vicious circle right? That "the Indian system" won't change unless people like you come back and change it from the inside? As for medical facilities in India I am reminded of a chapter in one of Atul Gawande's books where he talks about spending a couple months in some rural hospital in Maharashtra, straight from his teaching hospital in Boston. He was looking forward to teaching the locals a thing or two but he was humbled to find that although he was much better than them in his narrow surgery specialty, they were far better at handling a very wide range of surgery and improvising with very limited resources..
