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Out of box solution in health care | Dr. A. V. Gurava Reddy | TEDxMahindraÉcoleCentrale


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why I became a doctor so there are many
reasons for many people to become a
doctor so there are the top nine reasons
to be a doctor number one I hate to
sleep number two I failed in maths
number three I like to study in school
forever number four
nobody can read my handwriting and
number five my dad got extra money but
that’s not true I enjoyed my life enough
and I can’t live without tension and I
want to pay for all my sins and the last
one I don’t want to get married before
the age of 40 these are the reasons
precisely why I became a doctor but you
see when I was young when I decided to
go to medical school at the entrance
exam we were asked to arrange the
letters P and E is and form the name of
an important body order which is the
most useful when erect I’ll give you one
second those who answered spine like me
became doctors and rest of the people
went onto Facebook
as I say in the in the today’s theme is
why not in fact I would say for all the
fields in the life of particular
individuals the medical science is the
field where we should challenge
ourselves every minute why not rather
than why because there is a field so
much dynamic so many intricacies are
there it’s a kaleidoscope of human
emotions and we are got the privilege of
being the ringside seating to see the
emotions of the human beings and there’s
so many times we should challenge
ourselves why not then why then only we
can make a progress and a lot of the
times many people join the medical
profession with an intention to make
money if that is the sole aim that can
be one of the aims but if it is the sole
aim by which you join a medical school
that’s not right for you or for the
society I want this young man to see
your pulse than your purse but many
students just by passing intermediate
get into medical school without
realizing what is the gravity of the
medical thing and what it takes to make
a good doctor we need to make a lot of
sacrifices that’s why I question the
people or the society why not we create
a 1 year curriculum to join before the
medical school to go through that
whereby a person is taught the
intricacies of being humane the
intricacies of being compassionate the
nuances of helping somebody who is in
distress these are all the things and
abstract qualities which need a bit of
formal education which is not taught in
our regular colleges we are taught in
the physics chemistry biology but not to
tell how to be compassionate that itself
is an art and science by itself so why
not we create a curriculum and after the
1 year if this guy has got an attitude
and aptitude to become a doctor
then only he’s allowed into the medical
school and you all know that your
attitude decides your altitude accidents
kill more people
in India than hey cheffy cancers and
heart attacks put together and
unfortunately the government’s do not
give that much importance to the road
traffic accidents and it’s a shame that
India stands in the top three countries
in the world in road traffic deaths and
on the position now of course Andhra
Telangana how about the dubious
distinction of being in the top two
three in the road traffic deaths and I
being an orthopedic surgeon my heart is
close to this these are actual pictures
happen in Andhra and this is the picture
which has got an award of a photo
graphic journalism award which is very
poignant the gentleman lost his hand
hand is there waiting for casualty for
some people to come and save his limb on
life so why not we create a system
whereby the people are taught about the
prevention of deaths on the road or
periods of accidents you will be
surprised to know that 60% of the road
traffic deaths are preventable they are
by the driver error whether it is a
speed or a drunken driving or not
following the traffic rules and let me
tell you Hyderabad people have got a
colorblindness they don’t know what is
red no traffic
red light can stop them so you being the
youngsters should be the role models
wear the helmet drive properly even if
your girlfriend is sitting next to you
put both hands on the steering there are
times where you can put hands on her but
here is a steering wheel so please be
aware of that so why not we create a TLS
ACL as there are many systems are there
and we got educated the people to
prevent the accidents coming to the down
with hospitals compromised everywhere
unfortunate situation a girl trying to
carry her mother on a stretcher for
people sleeping on the bed people in the
outdoors of the hospital a woman and man
sharing the bed they are not wife and
husband but that is the sad state of
affairs in the hospitals
no I wish stands he has to hold his own
stand so this is the reality of the
government hospitals and our people all
the chief ministers they put a lot of
effort a lot of print a lot of money on
this but end of the day the results are
not there what are the reasons there are
many so why not challenge ourselves I
got a bit controversial solution for
this but why not these down with
hospitals are leased to the private and
corporate hospitals there are many
private hospitals which got a perfect
governance models so we can run the
hospitals and do the revenue sharing
everybody is a winner
government burden is less patients are
well taken care and corporate hospitals
get some money and government gets the
money so why not we think of that lines
another thought to ponder coming to the
RMB doctors are and be doctors means
registered medical practitioners there
don’t go to medical school like you and
me they just pick up a couple of things
or act like a compounders and pick up
the nuances of seeing the Pulsar acting
as though seeing the pulse and give you
antibiotics and old world city is full
of them
but people think that they are new sense
to the medical system but I got some
other thoughts in my mind they are not
liability if you treat them properly
their assets how many people like you
and me nicely colored well suited well
boomed in Hyderabad to go to the remote
parts of India and serve the people
there nobody 80% the doctors practice in
the urban area where 20% of the patients
are there where 80% patients are in the
rural area only 20% of people are there
so it’s not possible but these are every
doctors are the lifesavers they might
give you once in a while an anti but
which is not needed but they are the
guys who go there first and give an
antibiotic or a steroid and bring you to
the city so why not we create a system
where we can educate them in the
first-aid and in fundamentals of
critical care and get them onto the city
so that is a thought again
she’s going in my mind when I said why
not and coming to the treatment of the
patient I always say that cure with
passion care with compassion without
compassion there is nothing in this
world compassion is such a globe such a
beautiful word and I don’t mind reciting
it every minute without compassion you
can’t be a human being
he’d not only the doctor every person in
this audience should be compassionate
and I used that principle in medical
school he used to tell whether you’re a
doctor of allopathy naturopathy or
homeopathy first of all you should have
sympathy so that’s a great appreciation
of the human qualities so compassion is
the hallmark of any human being a kind
gesture can reach a rule that only
compassion can heal and you all know
that simple gadgets make all the
difference in the lives of the people
you don’t need to be an extraordinary
man leaving having billions of money to
help with somebody else that helping
nature is a part of the heart so nothing
is so healing as the human touch that’s
what everybody says that
so that touch and is sometimes missing
especially in the medical schools
nowadays and people have to learn about
that so again another thought process
why not
the human skills and the interpersonal
relationships and being compassionate
very important
let me come to another topic the I love
this topic humor in medicine humor is
medicine a lot of people think that
being a doctor is stiff-upper-lip know
you can be human and you can be humorous
and still touch the lives of the people
of course we cannot trivialize the
problems of the patients but at the same
time humor can break the walls and the
patient feels comfortable with you so
now let us go to the genome now you all
know that genome is the complete history
of you from the genetic point of view we
know what is your DNA what is your RNA
where is your 23 ll is there quality for
a ll what is around there will
everything so when you know everything
about your basic molecular level come on
those days where that my family or the
marriage people are going to exchange
the horoscope why not we actually the
Guillermo’s
so that’s it so tomorrow when my grand
grand daughter wants to marry somebody I
lasted guy CinemaScope I’m not a bi
you’ll 23 X gene there is some liver
problems I don’t want you so like that
you can have a future marriage with the
genome or scope that is not far-fetched
I’m telling you okay and this is how
babies will be born in the future you
don’t need to of course sex is very
important but you can have sex for
enjoyment not to produce babies so if
you want you can simply neatly sit in
the couch and print what you want and
your wife also prints what she wants
the wari and sperm will go and meet in a
virtual world and printer baby will come
out of a printer so that’s possible so
coming to the theme of this morning why
not is a very important thing if you
keep on probing yourself why not me why
not you so a lot of the times when you
are in depression when is all the whole
world conspires on you you think why me
but when the world is giving you the
goodie things you will never ask why me
this is a famous quote from our garage
when he was dying with cancer people
asked him why you said he said boss out
of the millions of black people I was
the only one who got the pimple
contented
then I did not ask God why me when I got
the cancer how should I ask the guard so
what I’m trying to tell is when the good
things come bad things also will happen
don’t just question the God why me
so like that why not me why not you why
not as why not now why not again why not
try so that’s the essence of life when
you have this theme in your psyche
things will happen let me tell you I
tell why not sky sky is the limit and
when you keep trying nothing is
impossible and I am not telling you my
biography if I tell myself you will
understand I failed four times in my
medical entrance examination for them I
got my medical seat ok and after joining
Medical School the priorities changed of
course counting anosmia
I was his junior in agricultural college
and after the joining the medical school
I looked more at the girls than my
biochemistry book and I failed in
biochemistry so I am NOT a typical
successful candidate but I am reasonably
successful today
I passed my efforts easier at age of 40
in England what I’m trying to tell is
sky is the limit and there is no age
limit and there is no capability limit
he just got a dream and try to get it
there will be lot of irritants on the
way even Barack Obama has got a flight
to deal with and sometimes when you are
not lofty things will happen you will be
peace net okay we make a living by what
we get but we make a life by what we
give this is one of the famous
conditions again I want you to develop
that kind helping nature being able to
help somebody and not helping is the
worst sin in the world a beggar on the
street even if he wants to help you
can’t help but whereas you and me are
designed by the God to help the people
so pick up that helping nation have that
kind heart help the people it need not
be extravagant even a small gesture can
make the difference now that brings me
to the brief famous quotation again by
the late president Abdul Kalam dreams
are not what you see in sleep they are
the things that do not let you sleep I
want each one of you to pick up a dream
let it be your carrier let it be social
responsibility let it be picking up a
girl like I shall write I Drive sure I
comes again and again because I love her
what I’m trying to tell is pick up a
dream and let it consume you let it burn
you don’t have anything except living
the dream that makes the lives that
makes you into a total personality
without a dream the life is as good as
gone let me tell you my friends everyone
has to naturally dream how big it is how
deep it is how different it is
immaterial but every one of you should
have a dream spend time with parents
thank you
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