Some more interesting points from BM Hegde's book "What Doctors Don't Get to Study in Medical School".
Yoga should not be misunderstood to be synonymous with aasanaas.
"Chitta vritti nirodhah yogaha."
Yoga is controlling the mind and making man more tranquil in his dealings with others.
Joy comes when one realizes that in life we should try to do our best; it need not be the best always.
We punished original thining and failed to create thinking, humane doctors.
The earlier this system dies the better for us as our entire education system was intended to make us rote learning robots of the western thoughts in the first place.
The MBBS degree that was introduced by the London University syllabus of 1857 continues even after 60 years of political independence with minor tinkering here and there.
We have been predicting the unpredictable future of humans by routinely screening the apparently healthy and declaring them to be unwell while time evolution in any dynamic system depends on the total initial knowledge of the organism.
Audits now show that all kinds of screening measures have resulted in misery for mankind while helping the medical and drug industry to earn plenty of profits.
Doctors have succeeded in shcooling the population to believe that health depends on medical intervention alone.
Mind is at the root of most, if not all, diseases, from common cold to cancer. Healing also needs the help of the mind of the hapless victims of illnesses.
A good surgeon is one who knows how to operate, a better surgeon is one who knows when to operate and the best is the one that knows when NOT to operate.
Education of doctors by drug companies, as is done now, through the multitude of "so called" conferences could be put an end to as most of them are used to buy favours from doctors by the drug companies.
Doctors are wined and dined lavishly in these meets where, in addition, the drug companies bring their "though leaders" from abroad to lecture and pontificate on their behalf in the guise of guest lectures most of which are company material being fed to the gullible doctors.
Medical education in India is crying for reforms.