iRADiX

Our great musician Naushad (now late Naushad) fell sick and was admitted to King Fahad University Hospital in Saudi Arabia where he had gone to perform Umrah. I along with a skin specialist went to see him. There an Indian doctor asked the skin specialist, "How many Indian doctors are there in your center?" And the reply was we are four consultants, one Radiologist and a Pathologist. He did not show the courtesy of introducing me to him that he is our Radiologist. I felt more sick than Naushad.

I do have a feeling that since we are not writing prescriptions the clinicians do not consider us any where near them as far as profession is considered and so when I read Dr. Bhavin Jankharia's editorial in IJRI August 2008 issue where he says "we must subspecialize and be able to speak the same language as our clinical colleagues". I was elated. I feel like beating the clinicians on their own turf.