Dr.S.Venkatesan MD

Tree of life : When professional morality suffers a mortality . . . human health becomes a causality !

Greatest threat to the future of  human health is  . . .

• Not from  exotic  infectious agents , bird flu  or  mosquito  fevers
• Not from  epidemic of cardio vascular disease
• Not from  thousands of  published  diseases in ICD code
• Not from  aging population and failing  vital  organs
• Not from  lack of availability of life saving  drugs and devices
• Not from  lack of  hospital beds.
• Not from  good sanitation
• Not from  hunger and poverty
• Not from  lack of para medical workers
• Not from  lack of health awareness and education

But from  . . .

• The way  health care is administered in this planet .
• The way  noble professionals are created .
• The way  trivial health  issues prevail over  major  health crises  that  wallop the health budgets.
• The way by which  medical morality is systematically destroyed
• The way   “concept of  health” is  sold  as a  buyable  commodity by insurance companies.
• The way  medical journals churns out  junk articles in the name of research.
• The way corporates indulge in  delirious pursuit  to  increase  bed occupancy rate of their  patient  ware houses (Also called Hospitals)
• The  way greedy drug companies aim to increase the per capita drug consumption of  ill informed  homo-sapiens  by discovering  pseudo  drugs for pseudo  illness
• The way   health insurance policies are misused
• The way  rich spend billions for reconstructive  cosmetic  surgery while the poor die for want of basic medicines !

Link to a wonderful  article  on moral education for our kids in medical school !