Case Study

Recently doctors in some parts of the country went on strike due to attacks on them by patients and their relatives. The doctors were providing only essential and emergency services. In recent times, a trend is emerging where doctors are threatened or beaten up by patients and their relatives but government fails to take any effective action against them. Doctors are extremely unhappy and skeptical due to such incidents. Patients and their relatives on the other hand, complain that doctors have become careless, commercial and money-minded. Such developments have resulted in erosion of compassionate and caring attitude of doctors, which ....