How a doctor should stay in the village is a big question. Suggestions are welcome.
R.S.Dahiya
Uncle ji,
YAKSH prashan hai ye to

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During the last few months I had to see the professional world of medicine or doctors say. Lots of misconceptions and lots of cruel realities are there for this life giving field.
Some say that in costly private hospitals they keep even the dead patient ventilator for few days and after the clearance only they let the patient body handed over to the family. Some say that they do un-necessary tests and medicines just to keep the patient with them for long so that the fee meter should carry on. etc etc
But above all these doctors are just like gods who save lives. One of my classmate is a PG doctor now in a very popular hospital, but still he is not getting much as for his efforts. Money is the main concern today and its the reality that we need money. Now if the less competent people in other streams like IT are earning much than them then they also think of getting professional totally. And that is why they usually prefer to be in foreign countries or to have their own clinics rather than the PGI kind of govt jobs, where there is lots and lots of politics and less salaries with high burden.
During discussion with the new coming doctors in PGI rohtak, I came to know the following:
1) The stress level is very high as there are less number of doctors and large number of patients.
2) Some of the seniors are so harsh and mis-behaving that its hard to work under them.
3) Politics prevails like in every other govt dept.
4) Less salaries as compared to private clinics or other fields.
So in my view to retain doctors in villages we can do the following:
1) Doctors are life savers and its a very painful and devoting job, so they should get handsome compensations. (Like that of siachen or other critical areas in military) the doctors staying in villages should get special allowances.
2) There should be few medical sciences institutes only for the villagers. Means where only the village students can get admissions and they complete their medical degrees and have bond of 7-8 years of village service compulsion. Like that of AFMC there should be heavy penalty if anybody leave for other options.
3) There should be more doctors to reduce the stress on the remaining, for this either they can increase the number of seats of institutes.
these were some small suggestions from my side, we also have some doctors members here who can suggest better in light of their experience like kalkhande ji and you.