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1ST JULY, NATIONAL DOCTORS DAY - FIRST DO

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to experience motherhood! How can they? When every child Meaning: Salutations to you, O Doctor (vaidya-raaj), the
birth is Caesarian!? No doctor speaks of good health; they brother (sahodar) of Yamraaj (God of death). Yamaraj only
only speak of diseases! takes life (praana), whereas the doctor takes life as well as
money (dhana)! To synthesize: O Vaidyaraaj I offer salutations
"Our body is a machine for living. That is what it is made for, as you are real brother of Yamaraaj. While Yamaraaj robs a
and that is its nature. Leave life to take care of itself, and person of life only, you rob both life and wealth!
don't interfere. It will fight its own battles a great deal better
than if you paralyze its powers by encumbering it with "I swear by Apollo the Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by
remedies. Our body is a perfect watch meant to go for a Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them
certain time; the watch maker cannot open it - he can only my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability
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adjust it by fumbling his way blindfold." (Leo Tolstoy).
from the Hippocratic oath, written nearly 2500 years ago,
Majority modern day 'doctors'- will do anything for few rupees forms part of the Western medicine.
more. If Hypocrites were to witness it, he will withdraw his
oath in shame. An ancient Sanskrit saying: Some doctors see the oath as a formality, some can't
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Meaning: "When the body is ruined and has many diseases, They came up with an idea about how doctors should take an
the sacred waters of Ganga (which confers health) alone is oath by the father of Ayurveda - Maharishi Charak!
the medicine, and the doctor can be none other than Lord
Leo Tolstoy in his classic "War & Peace" observed that 'our
body is a machine for living' and this machine cannot be
About the author
tampered with. The message of Hippocrates is simple - "First
Dr. K Raja Gopal Reddy do no harm".
PhD, FIII, FCII(UK), FLMI (US),
Chartered Insurance Practitioner On the eve of National Doctor's Day (1st July), we request
Principal Officer the hospitals and doctors to bear in mind that it is not medical
Topspot Insurance Broking Private Limited insurance that counts…but the good health of a patient. "First
(Commercially known as insurancepe)
do no harm".
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