I wonder
The last couple of decades has been a happening one in health care. Having had graduated in Medicine, 35 odd years back, my generation had the opportunity to be part of these happenings and taste both worlds. The world of health care of yester years and new world that is fast emerging around us. There are innumerable “happenings” that have transformed health care, but I am reflecting on four happenings or in one sense, transitions. Transiting from one way of functioning to another. Transitions that has brought much celebrations for some, but a nostalgia for some others – me being one with nostalgia's! May be like the Jews who were on a journey from Egypt to the Promised Land, still carving for the meat and the food of the country that they had left, some of us still craving for the yester years! We are promised a new face and system of health care, in the new emerging India, but some of us still yearning for the context of old times…. One such transition is from Medicine ...