Key Points
There are also non-MBBS doctors, "quacks," academicians, and doctors working outside mainstream medicine..
A few days prior to Doctors Day, which was celebrated on July 1, I received an invite to write on A day in the life of an Indian doctor..
Anyone with a modicum of insight into the diversity of healthcare in India will recognise that there cannot be a monolith called a classic Indian doctor..
Many of whom work in that quintessentially Indian institution called nursing home which predated the establishment of the large private hospital behemoths that we see today..
But if you wish to acknowledge the doctor community of India it may be good to know that this is a very diverse group - some legitimate, some contested, some visible, others in the background, some experts, others with limited skills who have carried the burden of a challenged health care system..
