The Scourge of India versus Bharat
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that there be 1 healthcare professional for every 1000 of population. The flaw in this method is the same as using gross domestic product to calculate per capita income. Thankfully the economists have rectified their mistakes but the doctors lag behind. We produce more doctors each year than most countries put together. Yet barring a few Indians, the majority Bhartiya are cruelly denied the right to seek decent healthcare because there exists none for them. It is this fundamentally reprehensible inequality that we should aim to overcome as doctors. We should employ a multi-pronged strategy to overwhelm and overcome the scourge of inaccessible healthcare. Firstly, we should harness mobile apps which consolidate and update the recent advances in dentistry making it feasible for everybody with a smartphone to educate themselves and their peers about the various trends and modalities. ...