In infinite wisdom Badri Natarajan <[email protected]> wrote:

 
> > 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?

There are people who want to change the system and there are people who
thrive in an already functional system.  


> 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..
> 

improvising is not always commendable.  An improvised tool might be good
enough, but not the best tool available.

-- 
Raj Shekhar
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