Let the New Year Bring Peace, Happiness and Joy in your Life.... Happy New Year 2014. LbnRaj, Vicky, Micky, Sharada

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You Wear What You Are

Instead of writing the news caption as 'you wear what u are', it is written in news clipping as 'You Are What U Wear'.  Surprising indeed! Humans are good at looking at consequences and end results.  When Fashionistas say 'U R what you wear ' .... They mean it by way of bring up, Circumstances, society, knowledge and beliefs. 'U are What U Wear', can not be true for all societies, times and situations.  Before some one becomes a nurse and wears a professional dress, the person was very much aware as to how a Nurse looks like, and why nurses dress the way they do.  It is good, a formal and professional Dress Code brings uniformity, identity and required comfort for a specialized work. 

 

But this should not create a blockage .... people and fashionistas need to be thinking animals and should not get stagnated in their thinking which was pre-conceived some time back.  The reasoning should continue.  And this is possible if either the designer is thoroughly grounded in the disciplines of Sociology, Psychology and Philosophy or some one with these specializations be part of their teams.  One should at least be able to say 'U Wear What U Are'.  Fashionistas need to move more towards rational thinking and professionalism.

Inspiration and Reference : Clothes Are Us - Dress Codes : You Are What You Wear .-Times of India, 14th Dec, 2013.

Research : Hajo Adam and Adam gainsay of North Western university.

Note : picture : North Western University where two researchers viz Hajo and Gainsay are working on this subject.

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Ratan Tata at Harvard Business School

Ratan Tata was  bit confused and humiliated during his first few weeks as a student at the elite Harvard University. Following were the words of Ratan Tata when he was at Harvard for Dedication Ceremony of Tata Hall (for Harvard Business Schools EDPs) : "But what it did for me s I soon found out , the confusion sort of disappeared, and you understood the magnitude of what you had learned in a manner that I believe not possible to do in places other than at this Business School..... Harvard Business School is the Pre-eminent place to be exposed to the World's best thinking."

Source of Info : Early Harvard days confused Tata.-TOI, Dec 13,2013



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Happy days for Chanderi Weavers!

Weaving is one of the great art forms which supports lives of weavers world over.  It is a well established fact that weaving all over employs and banks upon tradition, culture and folkways.  And indeed that is the merit and substance upon which weavers make a living.  Not only they make a living out of this art they have deep concern gratitude and respect for their traditional tools techniques that have evolved over a period of time.  With the emergence of new wave of Fashion Designers this art form has bettered the living conditions of many weavers.

Recent article of Purnima Sharma published in Times of India is worth reading.  She has nicely

brought out how with the inputs of Designers, Brands and Export Houses, the Chanderi Weavers have progressed towards modern thinking and better way of living.  Hats off to designers like Garg, Rohit Bal, Manish Malhotra who have brought in a fresh air into the gullible lives of Chanderi Weavers.  Many a weavers houses now have TVs, Refrigerators, iPads and mobiles.  Weavers are now able to afford better education to their children.

Ref : Purnima Sharma/Fruit of the loom.-8-12-2013.









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What is happening to the Professio of Doctors?

• The over all image and status of Doctor and his practice is under scrutiny for quite some time by people at large.
• Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill 2013 Bill : Mr.Brajesh Pathak Committee's recommendations are not so much in tune with the over all dignity and status of the Medical Profession. Recommends for examination of medical errors by way of employing non - professionals
• And now a Junior Doctors  (VARUN PATEL) blog going viral ( http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-04/mumbai/44755941_1_patient-resident-doctors-lok-nayak-hospital ) about callousness in public hospitals .... so sad ... so much irresponsible. Quotes from the Blog of Dr.Patel : 'You will see the resident doctors fighting over a patient.  Nobody wants the patient admitted in his own ward.  They call it 'batting', you would see them proudly blabbering around - 'Hey! Aaj Maine 6 Bat Kiye', meaning he got rid of six patients that day'. ' you meet malpractices at each and every step.  You discover that the true sense of noble profession is lost somewhere'.

LOOSE AND IRRESPONSIBLE COMMENTS EITHER BY A DOCTOR OR OTHER PEOPLE INCLUDING PATIENTS WILL DO MUCH HARM TO PATIENT CARE AND STATUS OF MEDICAL SERVICES AND PROFESSION AND ITS STATUS AND REPUTATION.

A CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACH IS THE NEED OF THE DAY.


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Medical Errors and Medical Profession

The Practice of Medicine has continued to command highest level of support and status from time immemorial in societies through out Globe.  Of late the autonomy of the Profession of Doctor seems to be under question. What went wrong. Medical Councils and Associations seem to be under attack for their probable leniency with regard to medical errors. What a price the Profession is paying. Brajesh Pathaks Recommendations on the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill will if accepted, have far reaching impact on the way the profession functions and the way people can question and monitor the way the doctors work and function. Governance of Medical Profession beyond permissible limits will have far reaching effects on the service and devotion of the profession / and the doctors. Let us hope for the best ... and see that Medical Profession continues to give its best to society and see that people should realize that too much of involvement in Medical Administration is to the disadvantage of people and society in general.

TRUST BEGETS TRUST. LET LIFE SAVERS MAINTAIN THEIR HIGH MORALE WHICH THEY HAVE FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL.

Basic Reference / Source of Information : 'Experts from other fields should probe medical errors'/Times News network.-Times of India, December 10, 2013.

Other References :

1. http://mciindia.org/

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Doctor in Question or the Profession in question?

 
The Words 'Profession' and 'Professionalism' stand for Excellence in Service, Status and Excellence and Commitment in Society since time immemorial.  Doctor/Medicine, Law, Engineering professions are the ones who have been known to be associated with Professionalism and high ideal of Service. What differentiates a profession from a job / occupation? ..... The differentiating factors are : 1.Autonomy and Self Governance 2. Service Mindedness, 3.Long and Continuing Professional Education, 4. Indispensability of the Work / Service.  As every one knows, Professions like Medicine, Law, Engineering etc command high respect and status in society. Lots of occupations / jobs like Nursing, Social Work, Teaching, Librarianship, Accounting etc  keep aspiring for the  privileges, status, respect and societal attention that the Established Professions like Medicine, Law etc command.

What is happening to the Practice of Medicine / Doctors is not very healthy either to Doctors or to the Clients or to Society in General. Altaf Patel's article "The Good Doctor on Modern medicine and Age-old Common Sense"(Times of India, December 2013) is indeed an eye opener for the issues talked about in this write up.  Zist of what Altaf Patel says (includes quotes) :

1. Doctors routing patients from their hospitals to their private clinics,
2. Raised a question as to ... 'whether doctors practice be treated as a Business
3. In my mind, that is an ugly way (means treating the medical practice as a business) of describing the profession.
4. Earlier Hospitals used to be established and managed by Charitable Trusts, now more of them are established and managed by public limited organizations.
5. One must consider that ever since the courts have ruled medicine as a consumer service there has been a great change in the way doctors practice medicine.
6. Regulation for medical negligence was previously done by Medical Councils who understood the intricacies of medicines, which I would not expect a learned judge to understand.
7. Encouraging patients to do all sorts of tests to find a disease.

THE WAY THE PROFESSION IS PRACTICED BY DOCTORS, THE WAY HOSPITALS ARE MANAGING BY BUSINESS MODELS, THE WAY CONSUMERISM IS MAKING INROADS IN THE PRACTICE, THE WAY MEDICAL DISPUTES ARE HANDLED, THE WEAKENED ROLE OF MEDICAL COUNCILS ...... ALL THESE ARE ENOUGH INDICATIONS OF DE-PROFESSIONALIZATION AND GOING DOWN ON THE SCALE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS. 

SHALL WE EXPECT PROFESSIONS TO CONTINUE TO BE CALLED AS CALLINGS? .... HOPE BRIGHTER AND FINER DAYS ARE AHEAD.

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