It is a moment of utter shame for all of us that the final year MBBS students, our so-called future doctors, were caught cheating and copying in GMC. Earlier they had earned a tag ‘donation doctors’. And now, they have added one more feather to their cap and that is of ‘cheating and copying’.  There is every possibility that these students might have been practising this right from their first year course. As the famous saying goes that ‘practice makes a man perfect’, these students by now have become perfect in copying because they are believed to have used the high-tech gadgets like mobiles and palmtops, as aids of copying in their exams. Hats off to the Controller examinations, University of Kashmir, who personally visited the spot, and caught the culprits red-handed. But, what about those invigilators who were on the examination duty on that day? What were they doing there?
When a person qualifies the much-hyped MBBS-entrance examination, everyone in the society gets an impression that the qualifying student must be intelligent and hard-working as well. Diligence and intelligence are the two things that are believed to get you through the CET for various professional degrees. A question that comes to my mind is that how the students who were caught copying in their final year exams, got selected for the said degree, when both the things are lacking in them. If we believe that they were equipped with both intelligence and diligence at the time of qualifying the entrance test, then we seriously need to look into the matter that why the degree which is supposed to make them doctors transforms them into cheaters? If our society starts receiving a breed of medicos whose ingredients are made of cheating, copying, fraud, fixing, etc., then we will be damaged beyond rescue. If we select a hundred bad teachers, they can at the most produce a dull breed of students, who won’t at least be selected for degrees like MBBS, BUMS, BDS, etc. but if we produce bad doctors, they can prove voracious killers of thousands of innocent lives. Another tragic part of the story is made by those medical students who are given a ‘mercy chance’ by the University of Kashmir, to complete their degree. What treatment should one expect from such doctors who are themselves standing on the mercy of others (courtesy University of Kashmir). As the common saying goes that a single sinner sinks the boat, likewise such acts mark an impression on our heart and mind and we look at every doc or any other medico through the frame of cheating and copying.  My grandmother has been suffering from some joint problem for more than 15 years and on treatment of many doctors, but unfortunately not getting any relief from the pain.  A few years back, she asked a question to one of her doctors that whether the doctors are made by hard work or by donation? I got a bit embarrassed at that time but today I salute her intelligence that despite being illiterate and at the age of 70 she could diagnose a disease in all her doctors which I couldn’t till this moment. I’m today forced to believe that only the wearer knows where it pinches? It is highly saddening to know that the prestigious GMC, which recently celebrated its Golden Jubilee and  once known to produce stalwarts, is all set to release a dangerous breed of Munna bhai’s tagged MBBS who cannot even treat their patients by the so-called ‘Jadoo Ki Jhapi’ which original Munna Bhai-MBBS could at least do.

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