The incidence of mob attacks are increasing day by day and the medical profession seems to be facing the burnt of it. It is the result of decreasing tolerance, increasing frustration, expectation of instant gratification, delayed and unequal justice and weakened police system, compounded by sensationalism by media, who judge and pass the verdict on the hapless victims without verifying facts, which then is copied at other places. Mobs are using brute force to get their way. A complication in a patient, or the unfortunate event of death makes the doctor a criminal and a mob collects, acting in an emotional frenzy, leaving all reason and logic behind, and cause irreparable damage to property and the doctor's and hospital's reputation with no repercussion at legal and financial level. If a patient does not want to pay the bills, the family raises a ruckus at the flimsiest excuse, get abusive and get away with it. It is high time for us to get united, strengthen and help each other in the hour of need.
DR. ATUL KUMAR GUPTA President, IMAEDB 2007-2008
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