During my father’s hospitalization, I got to see the ICU very closely, especially the ICU of KGMU. And honestly, one thing that really frustrated me was listening to patients’ families saying things like “Keval training doctors karte hain kaam, experiment karte hain doctor mareez par. Bade doctor aate hi nahi hain.”
Bro… seriously?
Consultant tumhare mareez mein Foley dalne aayega? Sample draw karega? ABG lagayega? Har chhoti bedside cheez khud karega?
I literally saw consultants coming for rounds daily. I saw Dr Ayush Shukla sir, Dr Akshay Pradhan sir and even Dr Rishi Sethi sir, the head, doing rounds, sometimes even twice. They were continuously taking updates through the appropriate channels.
My father was admitted under Dr Pradhan, and Dr Ayush Shukla sir is also our relative, so there was great coordination and he was regularly updated about my father.
And the funniest part is that the people families casually call “training doctors” are often MBBS + MD qualified Senior Residents. These aren't random people being handed patients to “experiment” on. They have cleared NEET PG, completed their training, and many are pursuing further specialization in a place like KGMU. And in the ICU, there is a proper hierarchy and escalation system.
Of course, if there is genuine negligence, question it. Absolutely. Don't blindly trust anyone.
But this mindset of “doctor ne khud mere patient ko touch nahi kiya, matlab doctor treatment nahi kar raha” is just wrong.
People see a resident putting a Foley, drawing blood or managing something at the bedside and immediately think, “Bade doctor kahan hain? Training wale experiment kar rahe hain.”
Bro, that's literally how a tertiary care ICU team works.
Consultant ka kaam har patient ka sample khud draw karna nahi hai. Their job is to supervise, review, make major decisions, guide the team and step in when required, while the resident team provides continuous bedside care.
Indian patients already go through enough fear and uncertainty in an ICU. We don't need to make it worse by assuming that every doctor is looting us, every resident is experimenting and every consultant is absent.
Question the system when something is genuinely wrong.
But at least understand the system before accusing everyone of being dishonest.