16/08/2024
The reply from an Indian doctor to all those crusaders who feel patients will suffer due to our one day strike -
*I don't care because you didn't*
# When doctors were forced to put their lives on the forefront during the battle against Covid 19 with minimum knowledge about the disease and less than minimum access to protective gear,you didn’t care. Did you think that the virus would shy away from infecting us just bcos we had a medical degree? What did the society do then- you pelted us with stones when we entered your houses to check on you, you asked us and our families to vacate your houses and societies, you shamelessly spoke to us only when you became covid positive or required oxygen or a hospital bed and then you cursed us because you had to spend so much for your treatment. Did you care for the doctors, nurses, paramedical staff and Hospital workers who had to take a huge risk for themselves and their families but still turned up for work daily?
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When doctors were being litigated against, beaten,assaulted, stabbed, on a regular basis.
you didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When cricketers and actors earn in crores but doctors are despised for charging even in thousands ,
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When you expect the doctors to be on time , everytime but you turn up late for your appointment and nobody even has the courtesy to give way to a doctor's vehicle in the traffic-
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When people follow home remedies and all such bull- s**t on social media for their illnesses but look at whatever the doctor advises with suspicion -
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When political parties call for bandhs and even patients find it difficult to reach the hospital, the doctors and paramedicals are always expected reach the hospital on their own braving dangers on the way-
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# During our strikes, we are still continuing with emergency patient services. This never happens in any other profession. When lawyers strike work, do you hear of anyone turning up for an emergent hearing? Patients die everytime due to bandhs by political parties -
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# When people "subscribe to ,view, like" and trust posts from you- tube influencers on medical issues rather than qualified doctors on the same topic they suffer the consequences.
You didn't speak up then, so shut up now.
# Last but not the least, you did not find it in your heart to feel deeply for one of our own who was savagely r***d and murdered whilst on duty ,as well as all the things that happened afterwards .So, please don't feel for any hypothetical patient suffering that might be caused by our one day strike. Use Google, diagnose and treat those patients - play doctor for a day ( but do pray nobody rapes or assaults you during that one day )
But whatever you do or don't do ,
bcos you didn't speak up earlier please shut up now.
Like I said -
*I don't care because you didn't*
Still I will be there at my hospital if any emergency patient will come tomorrow despite all my frustration . BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CARE.
