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 - Tonight at 11 - DOOM! - Read the latest at my blog: "a bag of tips" <http://rajshekhar.net/blog/archives/408-a-bag-of-tips.html>
