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National Medical Comission Bill .


A bill is being tabled in parliament today which will allow the practitioners of parallel medicine to prescribe allopathic medicine in India.Indian medical association has apparently protested and had called off the out-patient work in Delhi today.I am not exactly sure what to make of it because at the end of the day ,the government is just trying to make legal what is a practise in most of India anyways.The amount of time ,money and discussion that is being spent in curative medicine just because the lobbying from the corporate hospitals are stronger is pathetic.Now to set the record straight so as to be clearly accountable to the public ,the parliament annexe needs to have a parallel medicine department with a transparent record of the attendees being catered to the various forms of medicine so that the public know that the parliamentarians who pass the bill know and believe in what they have prescribed as a solution for the country and they will swallow the pill they have prescribed for the public.
These are tricky times.
Does India have a choice,I guess not because the rate at which the doctors are being abused by the system ,very soon they will be extinct..atleast the allopathic variety ,so india can revel in yoga,ayurveda,homeopathy,vegetarianism,...it might even work,one never knows by the preventive part being taken care of accidentally.
However,the double edged sword in all this is the consumer protection act.Allopathic medicine is a highly specialised field where everything is evidence based and has well studied and universally accepted cause and effect for every pill one uses,most times immediately.Poor and uneducated people in the village may swallow each and every pill the doctor babu prescribes but the noose will tighten at some place.There are actually no short-cuts to anything.Someone has to pay the price sooner or later.

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