Is it a problem with surgery or overall insecurity?
We have always learned in schools and colleges that there is a specific reason why any subject is filled with a lot of jargon to make it seem complicated or in a way superior to other subjects on contrary, they can say the same thing in a simple English or in an understandable way too. For instance, economics and statistics are considered to be very tough subject for students. But in reality, the language or the jargons they use are made complicated to comprehend and that makes the statistician or economist seem like some super-intelligent people but in reality that's not the case.
The same analogy can be applied to science communication as well. Scientists think they have the authority of science communication and can not accept the fact that the common people unrelated to their field or somewhat under knowledgeable than them can also speak about science and do things that they can do. For instance, the recent protests of Bengaluru Doctors belonging to the Indian Medical Association who are sitting on hunger strike against granting permission for Ayurveda practitioners after training of six months to perform surgery in the name of ‘Save healthcare India Movement’ is a recent example of this. Why are they so intimidated by Ayurveda doctors and feel superior about Medical sciences which is just some 3 to 4 centuries old and not the Ayurveda which has some 1000s of years of origin? Most of the medical science students also mock Ayurveda as a ‘Jugaad or quackery’, but can’t accept the fact that they have cleared their MBBS degrees with mere rote learning and they know the side-effects of medicines so well that they themselves don’t eat allopathic or so-called science-based medicines to treat their illnesses? They actually need to trust their field first in order to downgrade other fields.
I know there are some serious challenges to this move like less period of training, lack of experience and unavailability of anaesthesia in performing surgeries but why can’t the Ayurveda doctors be trained by these so-called highly specialised doctors? Why can’t we have goodness from both the sciences instead of downgrading one from the other? Considering the geography of India where most people live in remote villages with little or no medical facilities depend only on the local practitioners for any kind of emergency and training them can save many precious lives. Also, these doctors are the same people who had opposed spending the first year as a rural posting in remote villages? Where was save healthcare at that time? Why save healthcare comes only when they have their own interests or in a fear of joblessness? By the way, these so-called highly specialised doctors are the same people who these days leave all kind of weird instruments, watches, phones inside patients while performing surgeries but that's just because of work pressure and should not be counted under ‘Save Healthcare’ in India!? Wow!
