Doctor and Healing Touch

IntroductIondoctor and the Healing touch Doctors have been since ages, put on the pedestal of being GOD, but in recent fast pacing world, where materialism and corruption has crept into every aspect of life, where everything is weighed in terms of money, where doctor patient relationship has turned into customer driven marketing, where I see corporate hospitals selling health packages and salesmanship at its best for satisfying their customers (patients), I wonder, 'Is the golden era still alive?'I wonder 'Are we are deviating away from the original field of medicine?'As a young doctor who has just entered the world of clinical medicine, the spectacularity of this so called noble profession has triggered many questions and it has posed many enigmas in my mind.This article aims to discover the unsaid aspects and so called healing touch of medical profession and the clinical experiences in this rigorous, competitive, hard, sensitive, perplexing, enigmatic world of medicine and it presents the perspective and analysis through the eyes of a young medico, for the question: 'Is medicine going the right way or is it deviating???' 'Has the golden era gone?' "He has a gentle touch to wipe all tears Loving hand to support all in fear Someone with ability and knowledge to give advice Someone next to God, who can save a precious life!"This noble pedestal of being next to God has been given to a doctor who is healing the world around him or is it just an illusion or mere imagination?Has the world come to a point where in this materialistic post Y2K generation, materialism has eroded the true value of medicine, role of doctors often being confined to prescribing pills and filling his /her pockets?Is Medicine being chosen as Profit Producing Career?Is Profession of Medicine at the verge of dying?Objective evidences for the same need no clinical experience.A very look at newspapers selling health is the evidence of health marketing.A newspaper article advertising hysterectomy at the cheapest possible price is tempting enough for anyone to think even without indication i.e. 'Should we get it done as it could the best deal that is ever available?'It may sound bizarre, but I had few young patients asking me whether it was a viable option!!!!But there is no denying of the fact that even in this era of materialism and industrialization, even in this corrupt world, many noble doctors are standing up to serve the world.Yes, we have numerous examples of those moving against time and making a difference to others life with their empathy, wisdom and knowledge.I hope, wish and desire that young doctors of tomorrow may inherit this empathy, efficiency and humility that many luminary doctors of today have.Having known and read about fake medicines, doctors selling themselves to pharmaceutical companies and many stories of disgraceful acts, I still believe that heart of medicine is still beating, with