On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> So...what would be the situation where this model would actually work? Stop thinking that all medicine must be provided by someone with an MD. Trained practitioners to provide basic local medical services and to recognise when something needs more specialised care. > Seems > to me to be a very anti-people model, even in the western world for which it > was designed. But in the US, now I find that there are nurse-practitioners > who see less serious cases...paralegals who see to the "lower cases"...and > so on...perhaps that's what we should introduce in India, too, instead of > spurious doctors who advertise their names with the "Dr" in brackets, or > qualifications with lines over them! Yes. -- Charles
