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Do doctors have an uncircumscribed duty to serve? -Errol D'Souza

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published Published on May 25, 2020   modified Modified on May 26, 2020

-The Hindu

If doctors have a duty to provide care then what about the value of reciprocity: does society not have a duty to support those who assume the burden to buttress the public good?

During the lockdown I come across a number of stories in the press that are in some way related. A woman in Bengal was refused admission into a government hospital and eventually gave birth in an autorickshaw. A medical student at Delhi’s Kasturba hospital tested positive for Covid-19 and was put in home quarantine. Closer home to me a doctor in Gandhinagar’s GMERS Medical College tested positive despite adhering to necessary precautions. And doctors in the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad serving at the Gujarat Cancer Research Institute could not find beds to be quarantined for 29 hours after being tested positive for Covid-19.

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The Hindu, 25 May, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/do-doctors-have-an-uncircumscribed-duty-to-serve/article31671938.ece?homepage=true


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