May 27, 2012

Satyameva Jayate - Doctor and the 3rd Idiot!

So "Satyameva Jayate" this Sunday takes on the Doctors abusing the trust of the patients. Even though there are instances of abuse, it is not on a scale that I am alarmed of. Some of my best friends are doctors - I know and appreciate what it takes to become a doctor. But let me not get into the issue of Doctors itself - they should be treated at a level above the rest of the professionals. But no...w that Aamir Khan has moved on from Family Abuse issues to Society Abuse issues from select professions, I want to ask Aamir: Who are all going to be in the AK net? And who is going to be outside it?


Will Aamir also cover Civil Contractors, Lawyers, Architects, Politicians, corrupt Government officials, PMO, Party Presidents, Promoters of listed companies, Mutual Fund Managers, Subsidy-Adminstrators, Drug Inspectors, Engineers of Public Works, Statisticians and Economists of Yore, journalists, Editors and press reporters, NGO officials, Forbes Billionaires, Teachers, Syllabus creators, Educationists and Tutorial Owners, Corporators and Legislators, Priests and Mullahs, TV Channel Programming Heads, Newspaper Barons, TRP Market Researchers, Violent-and-Porn Film Producers, Transport Operators. Will he cover folks from his own profession who suffer from extremes of social apathy to harbingering social awareness? What about my own tribe - Bankers, Wealth Managers, Tax Advisors, Auditors, Chartered Accountants, and Salesmen selling olive oil remedies? It appears Aamir Khan may spare my profession anyway - because we deal with, inter alia, an asset-class in which India's households invests less than 3 per cent. And we are doing a better job than the doctors. But lets leave it at that.

At this rate, Aamir Khan might declare all professions to be dishonest or he should start with his profession - Films - and set an example first before taking holier-than-thou attitude on other professions. Doctors ratio is already pathetic in India; 99 percent of the population have never developed awareness of their own body and they rely on doctors to bail them out. Most of them are genuine and good and the five percent who take the patient for a ride abound in every profession, with or without a hippocratic oath. Family issues - issues affecting the child, the girl, the woman, the bride and the boy - might deserve rich highlighting. But issues around aggrievement of an individual from a particular profession need not be a public farce - there are relevant acts and enough measures to address them. Oh, Aamir - maine Kyaa sochaa thaa aur thu kyaa nikala!

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