The Illness Within

Modi was of course playing to the gallery in London, but there was a design to his comment about doctors. (Express photo/Praveen Jain)

Doctors, barring exceptions, are complicit in the commercialisation of healthcare.

Sanjay Nagral
May 14, 2018, Indian Express

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent remark in London about unethical practices by Indian doctors has predictably raised the hackles amongst the medical community. Even an organisation known to curry favour with the powers that be, like the Indian Medical Association (IMA wrote a congratulatory letter to the Union home minister on the action against JNU students), wrote an unusually strident letter accusing PM Modi making frivolous remarks in a “foreign” country. Studied commentary, like Shah Alam Khan in these columns, attempted to say it was state…

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