To,
Dr SK Sarin
Chairperson, Board of Governors
Medical Council of India
Pocket - 14, Sector - 8
Dwarka Phase - 1
New Delhi – 110077
Phones: 011-25367033, 25367035,
25367036,25367037
07 Feb 2011
Dear Sir,
I being Professor and Head of Department of Forensic Medicine,Calcutta National Medical College,Kolkata have written to you in the first instance when the Vision 2015 came to my knowledge.
Now on the last date of feedback I like to put my last nail to you to protest about it.
Your ideation of abolishing Forensic Medicine is as per western idea but perhaps you forgot the Indian context.There are conflicting interests in many affairs but to have the interest of medicos the most important aspect that is public interest is totally overlooked.
In western countries the peoples are more educated and conscious so legal affairs are quite different but here crores of people are dependent on justice in offences related with human body where often the doctor tells the final word either by clinical examination or autopsy.If the doctors are ignorant (with your option of elective forensic or orientation in internship and teaching by persons who do not have the knowledge or acumen)the outcome will be dangerous to the community.
I had made a survey about the medico legal knowledge of faculty members of other discipline and the general doctors the result is really shocking.One important observation is the older generations having 2 years study of Forensic as a full subject are much better than younger generations who passed with 100 total marks in 18 months.
With increasing cases of criminal interference,medical negligence and CPA related cases the medicolegal knowledge is essential and demand of the society to have justice.
You may plead that doctors are not legal persons so responsibility of law enforcement should not be in their feather but the basic interest to be demanded from a medico is being a good citizen and community worker your proposals are hindering that.
Our demand is Forensic should be uplifted as a full subject and in 3rd professional part I as unless the students are acquainted with clinical knowledge it is a futile attempt.Integrated teaching is welcome but by the forensic faculties only not by peoples of other discipline.It is a clinical subject having Forensic pathology,Medical Jurisprudence,Clinical forensic and toxicology .So Forensic must be given the due place without any delay.
A basic doctor may not have any application of details of Pathology or Microbiology but application of Forensic knowledge is required everyday.
At the end I request you once again to reconsider your proposal and to save the country for a potential catastrophy of medicolegal quacks must return the prestige to our subject Forensic Medicine.
Best regards
--
Prof T.K.Bose
Head,Forensic Medicine.
Calcutta National Medical College,Kolkata
Phone Res (033)23516922
Mobile: 09903854720,09433096930
email:drtapasbose@gmail.com
tapas.b@rediffmail.com
Ex-Sectional President.(Med Sc) Indian Science Congress 2009-10
Council member Indian Academy Of Forensic Sciences,Indian Society Of Toxicology.
No comments:
Post a Comment