AIIMS issue : 20 point failure of Dr P Venugopal.

[Jagannath Chatterjee]

Dear Sirs,

 

Many of you are up in arms that I have supported Dr Ramadoss in the tussle between him and Dr P Venugopal. My mailbox is full of mails critcising my views.

 

I am not in favour of the medical community in general as they are criminally silent regarding the many glaring shortcomings that the fraternity is facing today. Can anyone please let me know what steps Dr Venugopal has taken to address the following problems plaguing the industry?

 

1. The doctor-drug industry nexus.
2. Lack of continuous education for doctors.
3. Lack of exposure to and knowledge of other healing methods.
4. Over medicating purely to achieve industry targets.
5. Overusing the surgery room for increased profits.
6. Prescribing unnecessary diagnostic tests.
7. Lack of concern for the patients, treating them like commodities

    and exploiting them mercilessly.
8. Not raising voice against dubious and dangerous medical
   practices like vaccinations, body scans, x-rays, radiation, ultrasound,
   chemotherapy, ART in case of AIDS, GE drugs etc.
9. Refusing to see the emerging evidence that bacteria and viruses
   cannot be the cause of disease.
10.Not educating the public on healthy living.
11.Not speaking out against the junk food and drinks industry.
12.Not speaking out against pollution and environmental dangers

     and related matters that affect health.
13.Not revising the current health policy of the country which
   does not put adequate emphasis on hygiene, nutrition, prevention
   of illnesses and is woefully out of tune with ground realities.
14.Not informing the patient about side effects of various medicines
   and medical procedures and obtaining informed consent before
   administering them.
15.Complete failure in curbing chronic diseases, let alone cure them.
16.Treating the condition without hunting for the cause.

17.The rising incidence of iatrogenic (medicine caused) diseases and deaths.

18.Creating unnecessary panic and fear of disease in patients.

19.Unnecessarily criticising proven holistic healing systems and trying to

     convey that they are "dangerous" for health.

20.Retaining critical patients who they cannot cure instead of referring them

     to other medical systems.

 

Now please tell me why I should support Dr Venugopal in his bid to retain the Chairmanship of our country's premier medical institution? I believe Dr Venugopal should be stripped of all his degrees and awards for keeping silent on the above issues, which are more important than the issue of who scores over whom in the present tussle over power.

 

Regards,
Jagannath Chatterjee

Health Reform Activist.

 

- In ----------@yahoogroups.com, R.. <r.....@...> wrote:
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> Listing negative aspects of Dr. Venugopal does not automatically become
> any form of "defence" for Ramadoss' actions.
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> If anything, Dr. Venugopal should have been removed a long time ago,
> if his conduct has been wrong. Anything negative about him will no
> longer be seen in isolation.
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> That Ramadoss has an agenda here can not be denied!
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> regards,
> R.......
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[Prahalathan KK]

Hi Jagannath,

Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS... Whatever his problems with the ministry now are you can't refute the fact that he's a great cardiac surgeon and teacher which was recognized by the government with a Padma Bhushan.

 

Dr. Venugopal is the director of AIIMS NOT the God of health to solve all these problems. These questions should've been put to Dr.Ramadoss who is obviously more powerful being the Union health Minister.

 

I don't know what your motives are behind taking such a Anti-Venugopal stand... Either Casteist or Cheap Publicity... Please have some consideration for the intellect of the people you're writing to. Stripping of degrees from a person just because he was silent on issues which he doesn't have a power to regulate.... ha ha ha

 

Regards,
Dr. Prahalathan KK
http://www.prahalathan.blogspot.com/

 

'Those who condemn politics to be the last resort of a scoundrel are
bound to be ruled by scoundrels' - Plato

[Jagannath Chatterjee]

Dear Dr Prahalathan,

 

I was not trying to be funny, nor am I a casteist or an oppurtunist. I take the side of patients in their fight against insensitive doctors. In other fields like engineering etc. we talk about inert structures that affect human beings indirectly, but the medical industry directly deals with the lives of the people.

 

The issues I have raised should be the concern of EVERY doctor. Unless the honest doctors speak up the system is not going to change because the system recognises only the majority voice.

 

Dr Venugopal IS guilty of keeping silent on this issue as being the Director of AIIMS he is second only to the health minister, or rather he is above the minister because not all health ministers are doctors, unlike in the present case.

 

Dr Venugopal is a professional. He is thus also expected to have the macro view and not just involve himself in the nitty gritties of the institution. Instead of trying to prove his personal supremacy or trying to cling to power by using political clout, he would have made his country proud if he would have concentrated on overcoming the glaring shortcomings of the medical industry.

 

He cannot claim that he is not aware of these issues. If a non medical person like me, who has been at the wrong end of the medical profession, can return from his death bed, study about medical claims, conduct his own investigation and find out the real problems then a person who has studied to become a doctor and has gone on to become the most eminent person in his field should feel ashamed of himself for turning a blind eye to burning medical issues.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

Prahalathan KK <praha...@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

Hi Jagannath,

 

HA HA HA HA HA ..... very funny!

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