Mumbai :An umbrella body of 21 medical institutions Wednesday asked Bollywood star Aamir Khan to apologize for accusing doctors of malpractices in his TV talk show "Satyamev Jayate".
Medscape India said the representation of malpractices supposedly perpetrated by doctors was "rather sad" and Aamir Khan should offer his apologies.
"It is rather sad that doctors should be made the object of such shameless, unilateral scrutiny," Himanshu Mehta, co-founder and advisor to Medscape India, said.
After highlighting social issues affecting Indian society, Aamir Khan, in the fourth episode of his show, turned the spotlight on healthcare and malpractices in the medical profession.
He highlighted unethical practices, corruption and scandalous revelations in medical treatment.
"Aamir Khan is my favourite actor and he should stick to making films," said another doctor, Sunita Dube, president of Medscape.
"Surprisingly, no doctors' body has spoken against Aamir yet. We need to stand united against such blatant lies. We are going to write a scathing letter demanding an apology from him," Dube said.
Medscape pointed out that doctors were subjected to assault without any fault and many people didn't understand the pressures of the profession.
"Where is Aamir Khan when doctors are assaulted? Where is he when we give free treatment to the needy?" asked Kishore Taori, president of the Maharashtra Medical Council that is associated with Medscape.
The above is from Silicon India
Aamir has raised an issue of corruption in the medical profession only last week in his TV programme “Satyamev Jayate”
I have been raising it on our blog http://goethals1907-2007.blogspot.in/search/label/Corruption%20in%20the%20Medical%20Profession since February 2010.
Dr. Kunal Saha on has site http://pbtindia.com/, People for better treatment has been raising his voice eve since his wife died of negligence by AMRI doctors. The doctors accused of negligence have been made to cough up Rs 1.73 crores to Dr. Kunal Saha as penalty for wrong treatment.
If Aamir is to be criticized, I would say he has been very lenient on the doctors. He couldn’t fully expose them because he had to complete the programme in its allotted time.
If he was to do justice, and take all the comments of the patients who had been looted by these docotrs he could make it into a daily serial of one hour duration and it would probably run for more than five years.
The IMA , Medscape and the other medical organizations are making a laughing stock of themselves by asking an apology from Aamir Khan and asking people to boycott his films.
Nobody will listen to them.
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