LETTER FROM BANGALORE
Peculiar gifts
Sanjay A Pai

Elsewhere in this issue is a review of Complications by Atul Gawande. As the author and the reviewer emphasise, some people have to be at the receiving end, so to say, of tyros in surgery and other medical fields. This is unfortunate; however, it is the only way medicine can be learnt or taught. That this teaching can only happen in a teaching/university or a government hospital is a given fact.

However, because it is the poor who usually frequent such hospitals, I find that many Indian medical students are rude to their patients. I recently had the opportunity of visiting a teaching hospital. It would be an understatement to say that I was horrified at the shoddy, sub-human treatment - be it language, behaviour or attitude - meted out to the poor, often ignorant patients. These same doctors, though, are honey tongued, when in their private practices, some months later.

Physicians must also remember to respect their older patients. It is all too common to see young medical students address elderly patients by first name. (I am certain I did the same not so long ago. I regret it now.) They would do well to put themselves in the senior citizen's shoes and consider how they would feel if someone 40 years younger called them by their first name. Familiarity breeds contempt.



The reference to medical education brings me to another point. There must be very few, if

Fried Green al-Qaedas Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Danae then happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Danae on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.
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TOPIC PRESENTATION (NOV., Contd.,)

CLUB FOOT

DATE TOPIC PRESENTED BY
21.11.2002
(Thursday) NORMAL ANATOMY OF FOOT – AN OVERVIEW DR. RAJAN

PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN CLUB FOOT DR. SAMEER . B.

26.11.2002
(Tuesday) CLINICAL FEATURES AND RADIOLOGY IN CLUBFOOT DR. DAVIS SAIGAL

MANAGEMENT OF CLUBFOOT – NON SURGICAL MEASURES DR. RAMESH

28.11.2002
(Thursday) SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CLUBFOOT DR. RAVI. U.


3.12.2002
(Tuesday) NONIDIOPATHIC CLUBFOOT---- PROBLEMS AND MANAGEMENT DR. DEEPAK

TOPIC PRESENTATION (NOV., Contd.,)

CLUB FOOT

DATE TOPIC PRESENTED BY
21.11.2002
(Thursday) NORMAL ANATOMY OF FOOT – AN OVERVIEW

PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN CLUB FOOT DR. RAJAN


DR. SAMEER . B.
26.11.2002
(Tuesday) CLINICAL FEATURES AND RADIOLOGY IN CLUBFOOT

MANAGEMENT OF CLUBFOOT – NON SURGICAL MEASURES DR. DAVIS SAIGAL



DR. RAMESH
28.11.2002
(Thursday) SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF CLUBFOOT DR. RAVI. U.
3.12.2002
(Tuesday) NONIDIOPATHIC CLUBFOOT----
PROBLEMS AND MANAGEMENT DR. DEEPAK

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