ISBN: 9789381836651    Publisher: Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd Year of publishing: 2012     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 103        Language: English

Sarthak is a doctor in a soon-to-be busy hospital where doctors find time to narrate their unique experiences to each other sipping cups of sickeningly sweet coffee. The hospital houses hopes, prayers and disillusionments. Days roll over, punctuated by funny incidents and cases, few of these tragic. Till the day everything changes... Medical ethics and greed embattle and embrace in the uniquely grey backdrop of the hospital. Is it time for friends to turn foes? What happens when doctors use their knowledge of medicine for purposes other than treatment alone? Is greed all conquering, or do the human spirit and mind stand a chance as they seek to gain command over the frail and sick body, which they once commanded? This book traces the journey of the ever changing view point, as a doctor traces this memories from viewing patients - from a fellow human's point of view, through that of a doctor's, then finally to end with their own helpless point of view. This book is also the journey of our opinions and conscience as the environment and circumstances shape, refine, define or trash them
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The author, Dr Sudhanshu Bankata, MD, is a qualified Radiologist and also holds an MBA degree from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. The author has been associated with large hospitals in administrative and clinical roles and has been able to analyze the psychology, passion, trials and tribulations associated with management of complicated diseases. He has married his medical insights with his analytical skills to plot a web of emotions through anecdotes of medical situations and diseases. The author has been touched by numerous lives through his long medical career, on his journey of caring for others' health. The author wanted to write a book that could familiarize the non-medical community with the uneasy roles their doctors have to play in order to treat them. The author had been contemplating writing books much before he plunged into the frothy oceans of medical and management theories. Last October, he just put pen to paper and found the book he hoped to share with the world. This book is a tribute to the indomitable human spirit and will power, and an attempt at demystifying doctors and the complicated human emotions.
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