Just take a little time to THINK
When you aren't well, whent here is somehitng seriously wrong with your health, you decide and go to a doctor, who meets you. After a little chat with you to understand what is the problem with your health, the doctor asks for a few pathological tests, to possibly figure out the illness. On submiting these reports the doctor concludes, and also pronounces the illness - saying it can be treated, or spells out the criticality. Tells and explains to you as to what he sees is wrong with you and then either start the treatment, or tell you about the next course of action. During this time the mental agony, the pain of the suffering and your wanting to get rid of the illness makes you believe everything that the doctor says as being the 'gospel truth.' You do not even for a second suspect that what he is saying could be debatable or needs another viewpoint. Should you decide to consult another doctor and take another opinion, possiblities are that the conlusions might be the same, or different or radically different to what what you heard from the doctor you met earlier. You are in a dliemma, you don't know who is 'right' or 'wrong.' Here again you ponder over it and take a decision. You might not want to take a chance, you might take the advice of both the doctors and surrender yourself to the treatment of both,if it is not critical, but if it is you might use your gut feel, which could be right or wrong. The fact is that you take them to be 'professionals' who know about our body more than we know about it. So more than anything else you give credence to his qualificatin, experience and judgement as final. We say then by-and-large, that there is 'crediblity' in the profession of the practice of medicine.
When we look around we find it would be the same as other professionals too such as that of the Legal practice, Accountants, Teachers etc.
Yet the same people are a part of a society, and those who stay with us either in the same locality, apartment or colony. And when there is a 'common issue' that bothers all of us we meet everyone in the society to arrive at solutions, and when the same people whose advise on professional issues you take seriously, when they make their points here, why is it that they get under scrutiny if their opinions don't match yours.
The answer is pretty simple, professions stand to be credible, humans are not yet.
What can we do to add credibility to ourselves as 'human beings?'
When you aren't well, whent here is somehitng seriously wrong with your health, you decide and go to a doctor, who meets you. After a little chat with you to understand what is the problem with your health, the doctor asks for a few pathological tests, to possibly figure out the illness. On submiting these reports the doctor concludes, and also pronounces the illness - saying it can be treated, or spells out the criticality. Tells and explains to you as to what he sees is wrong with you and then either start the treatment, or tell you about the next course of action. During this time the mental agony, the pain of the suffering and your wanting to get rid of the illness makes you believe everything that the doctor says as being the 'gospel truth.' You do not even for a second suspect that what he is saying could be debatable or needs another viewpoint. Should you decide to consult another doctor and take another opinion, possiblities are that the conlusions might be the same, or different or radically different to what what you heard from the doctor you met earlier. You are in a dliemma, you don't know who is 'right' or 'wrong.' Here again you ponder over it and take a decision. You might not want to take a chance, you might take the advice of both the doctors and surrender yourself to the treatment of both,if it is not critical, but if it is you might use your gut feel, which could be right or wrong. The fact is that you take them to be 'professionals' who know about our body more than we know about it. So more than anything else you give credence to his qualificatin, experience and judgement as final. We say then by-and-large, that there is 'crediblity' in the profession of the practice of medicine.
When we look around we find it would be the same as other professionals too such as that of the Legal practice, Accountants, Teachers etc.
Yet the same people are a part of a society, and those who stay with us either in the same locality, apartment or colony. And when there is a 'common issue' that bothers all of us we meet everyone in the society to arrive at solutions, and when the same people whose advise on professional issues you take seriously, when they make their points here, why is it that they get under scrutiny if their opinions don't match yours.
The answer is pretty simple, professions stand to be credible, humans are not yet.
What can we do to add credibility to ourselves as 'human beings?'
