On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:03 AM, ss <[email protected]> wrote: > But we are not honest. The stapling gun company rep will tell the surgeon "Sir > - here is a gun. You can resterilize it and re use it so the patient pays only > Rs 5000 for the staples and nothing for the gun." Those guns are not meant to > be resterilized. Thay are meant to be disposable - but in India they are re > used. Otherwise they would be too expensive for use. No one will admit this > because it is lucrative for both manufacturer, the dealer, the doctor and the > hospital. And the idiotic insurance company pays. No wonder everyone is having > a ball.
I've observed this form of cargo-cult behavior more commonly in the middle east than in India. I believe in India it's not a question of aping the west but one of subverting the intent of the exercise for maximum benefit. I fault the education system largely for this: from an early age Indian kids are taught to game the system in ways that defeat the intent of education but result in maximum marks. I know teachers who won't teach some portions of the textbook because they don't ever feature in the final exam - and they know this because they pay more attention to analyzing exam paper statistics than the subject matter. What are we teaching our kids with an education system that works like this? That it's ok to ignore the objective of the venture as long as you can make the numbers look right. Cheeni
