HAPPY DOCTOR S DAY TO ALL DOCTORS ….WHO HEAL OTHERS AND ALSO TO THOSE WHO HEAL THEM SLEVES.

A Doctor – the word by itself gives a great feel to the one. As it is by itself suggestive of a scholarly individual with due respect and of great value in the society in and around him.
Doctor’s Day is celebrated in India on July 1st every year. Doctor’s Day celebrations started in 1991 when the Government of India recognized July 1, the birth anniversary as well as the date of demise of famous physician, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy (BC Roy).Dr. B.C. Roy worked a lot in area of medicine especially in terms of helping the poor patients.
Doctor is a healer …who reduces the pain , anxiety and fears in and around the people. It is a well known fact that mainly it is not the disease what makes the patient faint but it is the anxiety and darkness about the disease what makes the person faint. As a physician reduction of this anxiety and darkness in thousands of people coming to us is in our hands.
When there is doctor s day in India is there the duty and responsibility still more increases because we need to deal with the very wide range of patients…from extremely poor to rich , from quite illiterate to literate and from totally unaware to aware.
So I feel there is a lot of self actualization of being a physician is needed now days , as I feel a doctor should daily see mirror before going for the opd. And must measure the required honesty in the eyes of the self .
Most of the time medical profession limits itself only in giving the required medicine to provide the symptomatic relief….is it so ?
I will try to indicate at certain points via this article.
We can classify the duty of all physician mainly into 3 categories ..
1. Doctor as a preventative of the health
2. Doctor as diagnostician
3. Doctor as healer
1. as a preventative of the health :
Norms of life are the best safe guard of health and does much pioneer work in preserving our immunuity. Lifestyle and food habbits plays very important role in preservation of health.
There is much need of giving these things as a mass awareness . inspite of seen I have seen most of the doctors with their busy practice never stay attention in what sort of life style habbits patient is having..just giving symptomatic medicine anf suppressing it can never be an ethical job of the physician or any branch .
2. as a diagnostician
Diseases are coming now a days with many different aspects and symptoms . some asymptomatic disease comes with full of symptoms and certain disease sometimes even out of knowledge are coming completely asymptomatically. So the idea here to convey is one doctor has to be quite more attentive or alert for every case coming to him rather than allowing oneself fix to certain knowledge based on so called clinical experience.
It is really sad to say that it is too much malingering is going on at this stage. I have seen many physicians declare any acute abdominal pain as appendicitis.or declaring any headache as a sign of malignant hypertension. We can also see sometimes many physicians make the patient rush for variety of laboratory investigations sometime even without need . Such practice sometimes becomes a black line in the array of beautiful golden colored occupation. It is the main time where we can either reduce anxiety of the patient or can give them right light about their developed pathology.
Honesty with unprejudiced & alert mind should be alive in ones mind to be a right physician am I right ?
3. as a healer :
This role according to me includes
• listening the patient completely
• looking at that given case with unprejudiced mind
• giving him possible least harmful right medicine with possible minimum dose for minimum time .
• Sending him outside the opd with hope and smile on his face.
Most of the physicians forgets the many roles here and even I have seen becoming rude and curt to the person who is already suffering. Opd is environment is there to reduce the suffering and generate the health within . it couldn’t be tensed .
So far as all these things written above are too much old and told by many..yet unfortunately this remains theory in hundreds of opd s daily in India .
Respect given to us during such days should a wake up call for us.
So, as far as I feel physician must have that healing energy within which can give a sense of relief and security ot the patient in the area of health .
Only giving remedy is not all about being a doctor …it is only a part of job being a doctor. A doctor is much beyond that. Let us understand our value and maintain the same.

Although inspite of these many diversity our health and health management system works really efficiently. The doctors are giving the best possible dedication to the health system in variety of places across the country and hence we are one of the leaders in health all over the globe. Even technologically we are now quite more independent for diagnosis and treatments of some complicated diseases.
But here is one more point to be added it can make the health system complete and that is the co operation and multidisciplinary approach should rise a lot…a good cooperation among the doctors of various discipline such as modern medicine practioners , homoeopaths , Ayurvedic doctors , reiki and yoga practioners , music therapist etc. If all these disciplines chose to work with cooperation much holistic health can be provided to the society and can be fulfilled the definition of health given by WHO in India it its real means.

Health is all about creating the healthy experience within. Being a doctor I really have proud that I am the one chosen by the nature to have this ability to understand and reduce few people s pain.

A DOCTOR IS AN INSTRUMENT OF GOD TO HEAL…
                                                                                               Let us have a feel of it today.

                                                                                                                                                        Dr.Parth Mankad