Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery
‘Indian doctors command respect’
Online edition of India’s National Newspaper
Saturday, Oct 13, 2007
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‘Indian doctors command respect’
Ramesh Susarla
Eva Maria Mutscheller with St. Josephs Hospital administrator Victoria. —
GUNTUR: You cannot call yourself a ‘doctor’ even if you have completed your six-year medicine course in Germany, which is equivalent to MBBS in India, you have publish some papers in any specialisation and gain enough experience to take the honorific ‘Dr’. The respect Indian doctors command from patient is immense and incomparable, was how a final year student of medicine Eva Maria Mutscheller from University of Mainz in Germany summarized her experience in Guntur. Good quality of medical care was available for majority of people, who had very low paying capacity, she observed. “At a time when medical practitioners in Germany largely depend on diagnostics ‘to the satisfaction of patients’ for treating any ailment, in India with a lesser access to high-tech diagnostic methodologies, better and cost-effective treatment was being provided,” opined Ms. Eva Maria who completed an eight-week practical experience session at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Guntur.
A person successfully completing STATS Examination in Germany after a six-year study and internship, is allowed to begin medical practice, but attains the honorific ‘Dr’ only after publishing some special papers and specialisation in any particular aspect of medicine takes another five years after which a viva voce is conducted based on thesis/publication of scientific papers.
Experience counts
Experience in any outside country provides them an advantage in their profession, Ms. Eva told The Hindu on Friday. “Father Alam hailing from Guntur used to be in a parish in Mainz, from where I hail, and he got me contacts to enable me to travel to this place,” she said. Interested in specialising in orthopaedic or plastic surgery, she got a wide range of experience by associating with some of the leading surgeons of Guntur on some live operations, which chance she would not have got in Germany.
She is overwhelmed by the support she received from Dr. Satish Kumar, a plastic surgeon carrying forward the Smile Train programme of free Cleft Cliff surgeries in Guntur.
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