Why Doctors Should have an Association?

As a student aspiring to become a doctor one competes among appx. 3 lakh students for a meager 2000 seats all over India and simultaneously face the wrath of reservation and people who are ready to spend tens of lakhs of rupees for getting their non deserving wards admission to medical colleges by unjust means. Then after hard tried and hard worked admission to a medical college you prepare for another prolonged & hard battle of five years in a medical college only to become a MBBS worth a few thousand of rupees as stipend during internship, house job, PG or senior residency which is not sufficient even buy your bread & butter. An II-Tian or II-Main or a computer technologist or a person in a related field would be earning lakhs of rupees by that time or student who prefers to go for IAS or IPS or IFS or IRS would be more powerful & earn much much more then a medical graduate or postgraduate. You also have to face unjustified & unthoughtful Govt. policies even when you have doctors sitting at the helm of affairs who want to prolong agonies of a medical graduate by adding more years into his hard studies. This is not all ! When you complete your studies and then try to settle down in life at a ripe age of around 28 to 30 you face new challenges in the form of physical assaults by patients & relatives, a hell lot of regulatory acts, legal binding in the form of CPA, MTP Act, Nursing home registration act, PNDT act, commercial house taxes, electricity & water bills equating you with business community & still wanting a doctor to come in essential services to provide free services to community and still be at the mercy of others. As if that is not all, a bunch of "manipulator mind less", "corrupt", "deaf, dumb, docile & deficient" officials (i.e., MCD) come into action & tighten noose round your neck and squeeze any thing & every thing out that is left in you and make it sure that you are not able to work. "NOW WHERE TO GO ?" This is the time when your unity and association can come to your rescue.
Friends so association is a "MUST" and make duly elected office bearers of your association more powerful by joining hands with them so that united we can fight against the menace of politics, judiciary, law enforcing authorities, bureaucracy and various Govt. departments.

Dr. RAVI MALIK, President IMA East Delhi Branch 2008-2009