The writer is professor, department of orthopaedics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The views expressed are personal.
Case for compassion
Violence incubates in our society. Insensitivity to it makes the doctor vulnerable.
The recent assault on junior doctors in a medical college in Kolkata — that caused serious injuries to two interns — needs to be strongly condemned. Such violence is unique to the Indian Subcontinent. A number of studies have shown that violence at the workplace can have negative and disastrous effects on employee satisfaction and work performance. Having said that, doctors too are not completely innocent. It appears that the mob mentality has come to rule our social consciousness, preying on even the most elite members of the society. This needs deeper introspection by the society in general and the medical fraternity in particular. It is important to remember that we have institutionalised violence through politics, caste, religion, economics and gender discrimination. We have created a hierarchical social order through such institutionalised violence. Doctors are amongst those who sit at the top of this hierarchy.
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