Healer on Death Bed: How and Why? Revive Him Please!

that they begin to believe that the field has indeed reached far and by the best application of their knowledge, they will help alleviate suffering. As things stand, it takes decades of medical practice to appreciate the incompleteness of the accumulated knowledge and the problems thereof, awakening the healer in him through a selfjourney, rather late in life. Aims and ob jec t ives of the physicians form another dimension. We humans being reward oriented creatures and societies promoting the concept of ‘climbing the ladder’; individualistic considerations have always been incorporated in the making of the medicine man. In a doctors practising career, large chunks of energy are ut i l ized in ‘progress ing ’ in medic ine , acquiring grants, positions, peer recognition, wealth etc., leaving less than optimal mental space to care for those who are afflicted with illnesses, being a healer. I n o r g a n i z e d m e d i c i n e , administrators and managers reign supreme, often having more sway than senior faculty members. They decide whether you have worked enough to justify pay for a full consultation and when should you take your next competence examination. Wading through the process that keeps them happy takes time and efforts. These trying circumstances seem to act adversely on the well-being of the physicians; which is a prerequisite for the