1st July is celebrated as National Doctor’s Day all over India. The Checkup magazine a general lifestyle magazine for doctors got in touch with some Junior and senior doctors to share a small message on ” Being a Doctor”. Here is what they would like to say…
What started as an interest and acumen in biology and life sciences evolved into an understanding of health, disease, and recovery. This knowledge provides a certain sense of power over maladies and is at once gratifying and humbling.
Being a doctor has given me a deeper understanding of biological timelines and an awareness of the cause and consequences of ill habits and ill health.
It has also instilled values of empathy and made kindness a habit.
–Dr Sai Surve-Rane is a Consulting Periodontist practicing in Sindhudurg, a regular medical writer, and an occasional poet.
Today more than ever before, doctors need to reiterate and reaffirm their commitment to professional ethics and excellence.
While defending against occasional societal injustice is mandatory, empathetic treatment of patients must be steadfastly practiced.
This is the only way to counteract the efforts of those who seek to malign the medical profession.
– Dr. Ashish Waklu (MBBS, MS, MCh MNAMS ) is a professor of Pediatric Surgery.
Being a doctor in a non-clinical field, i.e. Pharmacology, has been a perspective-changing experience. It helped me realize that a healer is not just someone in a white coat who examines you with a stethoscope and prescribes medicines. Human life can be affected in many ways and healthcare has many unsung members. Every doctor, scientist, or employee in a hospital or any healthcare facility too, plays a crucial role in maintaining a healthy society, and Doctors’ Day celebrates all these heroes.
– Dr. Manasi Rege is a resident doctor in the Department of Pharmacology at L.T.M.M.C. and G.H., Sion hospital. She is fond of writing short articles, poetry, and travelogues.
10 THINGS TO REMEMBER ON DOCTOR’S DAY
1. Each patient carries his doctor inside him.
2. People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness, they remain in his debt.
3. Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
4. A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn’t react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
5. Medicine aims to prevent disease and prolong life; the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need for a physician.
6. There are only two kinds of doctors: those who practice with their brains, and those who practice with their tongues.
7. True health care reform happens in our kitchens, in our homes, in our offices, and in communities. All health care is personal.
8. The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
9. If a potato can become vodka, you can become a hernia surgeon. All you need is to get under the heat, let your technique ferment, distill your knowledge and purify the product till you can safely sell it!
10. Finally, only this holds true: “I treat, HE cures.”
– Dr LUCKY S KASAT (DR LAXMIKANT) Consultant Pediatric Surgeon | TEDx Speaker
Being a good doctor is not about curing patients. A good doctor is meant to heal people. This is something that is not taught in your syllabus, it comes through the moments spent with the patients. A lot of hard work and sacrifice is put in, to successfully and proudly be a part of this noble profession- which works unceasingly to annihilate itself.
So, to all my fellow Doctors ~ Happy Doctor’s Day!
– Dr. Mitali Choudhary
I have never been able to answer the question ‘Why I wanted to become a doctor?’ because I still don’t know how to describe a feeling that I always had, throughout. I chose this profession because I never knew what will suit me better than this. And yes being a doctor is not just a profession, it’s a lifestyle and even though I am not a doctor yet, I get it.
There is a long journey ahead, to learn, and grow. It’s exhausting but satisfying and I just hope I get to cherish it all.
-Shreya Singh, Final year MBBS student
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet”
So after dabbling in teaching, pharma, diabetes, private practice, and medical writing, I landed 6500 km away from my home in search of my calling.
Though psychiatry is far more taxing than somatic medicine (for me at least), the fact that you can make someone smile (literally after he/she has experienced month-long anhedonia) is a very gratifying experience.
My advice, it may take you your 40s, and it may take a long winding path, but what you seek is seeking you as well.
– Dr Pallavi Sawant Uttekar , Gerontopsychiatry, Germany
In recent times there is a constant worry among medical profession about medical field. When asked for career guidance, the most senior and reputed doctors are advising budding school students – not to take medical profession! I always wonder at the irony in this situation. The doctor who grew through this profession, does not want anyone to come to this field and get stuck! It’s wondering where everything went wrong? I feel the factors behind such advise is due to – lack of opportunity and work life balance in medical field!
I do agree that renumeration and respect in medical field is not like before! This happens in almost all fields when it gets supersaturated. Solution needs to be found rather than chasing away an aspiring soul. It is difficult from an individual point of view to stop the government from diluting our field – by increasing the quantity of medical professionals with poor quality of training – which is the root cause for above mentioned factors. The idea to solve this problem can be – ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’. It is a slogan from US marine soldiers popularized by Clint Eastwood in his movie. This process can take some toll on work-life balance for a short-while, but I do see a light at the end of the tunnel. As the field is ever expanding from an age old amputation to upcoming AI controlled procedures, a doctor will be the director of the entire treatment process! We should ‘Improvise’ with the updating knowledge without compromise! ‘Adapt’ to the situations based on opportunity – by moving to a place of less comfort zone. India being huge landmass with unbeatable population moving away from cities for an opportunity is not a bad idea. Ultimately work-life balance can be obtained in ‘overcome’ phase.
Instead of straight forward rejection of budding doctors with a big ‘no’ to enter our field, it is time to discuss and help them take a wise decision !
–Dr.Shylesh Ramesh babu is a Plastic surgery resident. He is a Multilingual, wandering in the direction of wind on quest for knowledge and passionate about plastic surgery, travel, sustainable living, movies, photography, anime, art.
“The greatest medicine of all is to teach people how not to need it.” -Hippocrates
This is what made me think about the importance of medicine in my life!
I have always been a curious cub and wanted to know dwells inside a human body. How it functions? how diseases are caused ?and Hundred questions just barged all the time!
And now after being a doctor also I have found that this curiosity is limitless!!
Being a doctor is an ongoing learning process.
And as I grew up we already had three doctors in the house to solve all my queries but what I actually wanted was to live my mom’s dream of me becoming a doctor and I was much tucked into it!
She instilled in me the values largely.
The process for me was collaborative, involving my family and my teachers.
Things are evolving day by day in medical field.
It’s not the same anymore, We Doctors have become more techno savvy than ever before and with recent advancements we are seeing more and more updating innovations in medicine which is helping people to become better and healthier.
Being a doctor gives me pride in selfless service of humanity.
– Dr.Neeta Maske a Proprietor of Icon Multispecialty hospital and ICCU , Proprietor of Icon Pharmacy Ophthalmologist and eye surgeon at Icon Vision , Thane.
Doctor’s Day is celebrated all over India on the 1st of July. This day is for those doctors and health workers who are risking their lives to serve people. This day is celebrated on the birth anniversary and death anniversary of Doctor and second Chief Minister of West Bengal, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy.
Dr. Roy was born on July 1, 1882. He died on this date in 1962 at the age of 80. He played an important role in the establishment of the Indian Medical Council and the Indian Medical Association.
This year also July 1 is going to be even more special because these were the doctors who are standing against the COVID-19 epidemic and protecting the patients.
Happy Doctors Day to all the Doctors who are God-sent Angels of the Earth they are the real Heroes in this Era. I am proud of being a doctor and serve the nation.
Being a doctor is a challenge every day it is a continuous learning process. The human body is complex and just as you think you have known most of it in your specialty, more challenges appear. So a doctor is always a student. Every day we get the bonus of helping people out of their misery and getting them to feel better again. The hardest part has always been to deliver a piece of bad news to the patient and his family. But then life is a mix of triumph, tragedy, and happiness which one has to accept and perform our duty to society.
As a doctor, I am thankful to the Almighty to be allowed to serve people who repose faith in me to alleviate their pain and suffering. It is extremely fulfilling for me to be a change-maker in society by initiating preventive, promotive, and rehabilitative care. Small efforts in educating people about good health have a huge impact on the community. The practice of team medicine, high-tech care for diagnosis and cure, willingness to promote quality care as well as great skill sets and competency are great boons in modern medicine.
– Dr.Nikita Pawar ,MBBS PGDCR
