BAD MEDICAL EDUCATION :-


Modern medical education has always concentrated on the "other". Right from the time of admission to the medical college the students start understanding human body of dead person to begin with and living persons afterwards. At no point of time in his or her education is a student asked to look at and look after his or her own body. Understanding human body, mind and soul must begin with one s own body, mind and soul. One must appreciate the influence of body on mind and mind on the body. If a doctor is unable to appreciate his own body then it is like one ignoramus treating another ignoramus. If a doctor is unable to manage her own body then how can she even think of managing someone else s body? This fact is totally ignored in medical education. The students themselves do not know how to keep themselves healthy and worse they are told to manage somebody s "health". Simple questions of patients like: "what should I eat, what activity should I do and can I indulge in sexual activity?" are answered very badly to put it mildly. If the young doctor does not do exercise he is not going to answer the first question correctly. If he does not know when to eat, how to eat and what to eat then the second one cannot be answered. Even now sexual attitudes of teachers and doctors are pathological. If they themselves are not able to solve the sexual puzzle they cannot advise the patients. Our body is the best laboratory we have. We must educate our young doctors to become aware of the body functions, mental functions and glimpses of spirit if any. A doctor has to be an enlightened person with an inclination towards appreciating the abstract purpose of life. Just wanting to be a doctor is not enough reason to become one. Medical education must direct itself at health and not disease. First the doctors must care for their own health then they can do some worthwhile service to the community. Problems requiring treatment should become fewer and fewer if through proper management of internal and external environment the human organism can remain healthy.