MALPRACTICE OF DOCTORS

It is rightly said that “Health is wealth”. Health is one of the greatest gift given by God to man. But human beings do not bother to take care for gifts. It is a human psychology that people only care for those things for which they have to pay. The more precious the thing is the more people care. May be this is the reason we see peoples playing with health of others or even with their own.
The role of a doctor is very crucial in our society. He is well-educated person of the society who pays attention to the health issues and also act as a main body in controlling transmission of diseases. Our society mainly consists of poor peoples who don’t have knowledge about diseases and other common health problems. So it is duty of a doctor to look after them. But unfortunately this does not happen, many doctors in villages and small towns use this noble profession as business and consider their patients as customers. They are, in sense, playing with lives of innocent people who come to them with some hope.
Those doctors use same syringes on many patients and play major role in transmitting diseases like Hepatitis B and C which have become much common in our country and even most dangerous disease, AIDS, can be transmitted through this route. Doctors also perform circumcision but they don’t care for hygiene. They don’t have any special room for this type of minor surgical procedures. And they perform procedures on a couch placed within their clinic or if there is little space in clinic they even do not hesitate to do on bench placed outside the clinic where there is so much dust, vehicles running besides etc. On the other side they even don’t bother to sterilize their instruments. These all conditions may cause infections or many other life threatening diseases like tetanus and sepsis. Nowadays a new trend is seen that is competition among doctors. it looks strange but its true. They are giving high dose antibiotics and cortisol to each patient, that can give immediate relief to patients but there are long term hazards of using these drugs. that is why these should be reserved for critical patients.
On the other side, people themselves are also careless for their health. Many people go to quacks or homeopaths for their treatment. Some even don’t bother to go for any treatment. They  take medicines from a person running a medical store who is just matric pass or may be even less educated.

Such doctors are using their degree to earn money and government should take some step against them and they shouldn't be allowed to practice and take lives of innocent people.

ROBOPATHOLOGY; AN EMERGING DISEASE

Human is called a social animal, because of his ability to interact socially. This ability is responsible for his superior feeling which has made him to live an illusory life. Because the truth is otherwise. In fact a seed of superiority is lying within himself and waiting for water.

For a long time man is living an a mechanical life. He thinks something but acts opposite to it. A modern English thinker, Lewis Yablonsky, has coined a right word for this pathology, a robopathology and a man who suffers is called a robopath. Robo means a machine, an automaton and pathology refers to disease, so robopathology is a term to define current situation of human being. As he is becoming more and more mechanical.

There are two states of mind; conscious and sub-conscious. Sub-conscious mind is your robotic mind and most of the time it works and helps you in your daily routine. For example when you are learning how to drive a car then you are conscious about steering, brakes, accelerator and surrounding vehicles. But once you have learnt then this info is saved in your sub-conscious mind, that is your robot, and then you don’t have to be worried about the things which bothered you the first time. Then during driving you are talking on cell phone, listening songs but don’t pay such attention to driving. Have you noticed that at times when you are going home and thinking something you forget about your surroundings but when you come  back from your thinking you are at your own house…this is only because the way back to your house is saved in your subconscious. But these benefits are within certain limits. As to live completely a robot life is nothing but boredom. To wake up in the morning, go to workplace, eat, sleep and the other day goes on alike.

Robopath is a person who goes on living a mechanical life, a repetitive life. He avoids adventures and is afraid of dangers, new ways. So he always tries to stick with his old ways, with which he is accustomed. He  dreams at night with eyes shut and in the day with eyes open. He does not act but reacts. His button is in others’ hands, he is controlled by others. When somebody is insulting him, he reacts with his anger. Sufis have talked much about this pathology and given it may names. They used to call, man is dead, man is asleep, man is machine, and man is not yet. Gurdjieff introduced the same concept to western world and called man, a machine. All of his teachings were to wake up man. He used to say his followers to do a simple experiment, to watch the second arm of wrist watch and remember that it is the arm that shows seconds. But to his amazement, his followers could not remember it more than ten seconds.

So, robot mind is good for daily routine work but to live completely with it takes away the charm of life. It is like to live life in sleeping mode. Hence, to do everything with consciousness does the work of salt in life. Be aware of your each and every activity.

GURDJIEFF

“I have a very good leather to sell to those

Who want to make themselves shoes.”

G.I. Gurdjieff

G

eorge Ivanovitch Gurdjieff was born in Armenia in 1870. He was seeker of truth and was succeeded in his goal. We don’t know much about him as he has talked little about himself and that too is symbolical. Even his autobiography Meeting with the Remarkable Men didn’t tell how he achieved the truth and who his teachers were. His father, John, was a traditional bard of that time and carpenter by profession. Gurdjieff learnt many things from his father, his first teacher, who wanted him to be a priest but Gurdjieff was interested in science. He always wanted to know the truth, to know who am I? Why am I here? What is the aim of human life? He was not satisfied with religious answers so he started the journey to seek the truth.

In the days of his childhood, he was interested in occult sciences like other children and many events happened that surprised him. One day he saw a boy, within a circle, crying and trying to escape but couldn’t. On asking he came to know that boy is Yazidi (a religious group) and a yazidi cannot escape from a circle. Then Gurdjieff removed a part of circle then that boy could be able to flee. Gurdjieff was taken aback on the scene and asked from many people. Then someone told him it is hysteria. But perhaps, he was not satisfied with the answer and he himself imprisoned a yazidi woman and like that boy she was not able to escape. When Gurdjieff tried to take her out she became unconscious. Many events like this made him to think upon and to search for truth.

In his adolescence, he got a job as a stoker at railway station of Tiflis where he met with Sarkis Pogossian who came to become a priest. Later on his mind changed and became locksmith at the same railway station and became a companion of Gurdjieff. They both were interested in occult science and used to read ancient books to get knowledge. Then both set out journey to find out the truth but later on Pogossian got separated from Gurdjieff and got job on ship.

Gurdjieff on his journey learnt many languages and practical skills to earn money for his journey. Unfortunately we know very little about his journey and that too is not very clear as the only source is his book Meeting with the remarkable men.

In 1912 he appeared in Moscow with unknown teaching that was neither religious nor philosophical, rather it was practical teaching to be lived. He attracted a circle of people and in 1915 P.D Ouspensky also became his disciple who was already famous for his book Tertium Organum. To follow the way Gurdjieff proposed, nothing is to be believed until verified by direct experience and life in the world is not to be renounced.

He was the first who realized that human is living a mechanical life; he has become a machine, a robot. He is not aware of what he is doing, but he can be conscious. He said, “Man is asleep. He has no real consciousness or will, he is not free. But he can become conscious and find his true place as a human being in the creation but this requires a profound transformation.” His main focus was how to awake the people, how to make machine again man. His call was radical “Awake! Awake from your unsuspected hypnotic sleep”

Gurdjieff had very much confident on the human capabilities and the only question was to be aware of those abilities, the human possess. He has said, "Man's possibilities are very great. You cannot even conceive a shadow of what man is capable of attaining. But nothing can be attained in sleep. In the consciousness of a sleeping man his illusions, his 'dreams' are mixed with reality. He lives in a subjective world and he can never escape from it. And this is the reason why he can never make use of all the powers he possesses and why he lives in only a small part of himself."

In 1922 he settled in France where he situated Institute for Harmonious Development of Man at the Prieure, Fontainebleau-Avon. And a decade 1925-1935 he devoted to his writing and he wrote four books. Then again he turned back to his teachings as he was fade up of writing books. He died in 1949 in Neuilly, Paris.

Gurdjieff’s constant demand is to know thyself. Who am I, and what is the significance and aim of human life? The great edifice of Gurdjieff’s teaching rests on the unshakable foundation of this innocent interrogation. Gurdjieff preferred Today over Yesterday; he did not invite us either to anatomize him or to idolize him, but to search for ourselves.