Doctors, Patients, and the Missing Link of Understanding By Dr. Parth
Participant: Over the years, there have been alarming reports of violence against doctors, raising concerns among medical professionals. As a medical graduate, I feel apprehensive about whether working in a hospital could jeopardize my safety. Why are such incidents becoming more frequent, and what can be done to address this growing issue? How do we create an environment where healthcare professionals feel respected and secure while serving humanity?
Dr. Parth: Look, you don’t go to a hospital to buy clothes or sell mangoes, do you? You go because something is wrong with your body. But when you arrive, most people walk in without the slightest understanding of how their own system works—how your body, your mind, your emotions, and energies function. If people simply understood themselves, half the hospitals in the world would shut down. Doctors wouldn’t be overworked, and they certainly wouldn’t be beaten up by patients.
But see what’s happening now—someone goes to a hospital, gets frustrated with their own illness or life situation, and they take it out on the doctor. Slap the doctor, yell at the nurse. This is the height of ignorance! A doctor is not there to be beaten; he is there because he has chosen to serve despite the chaos around him. Why is this happening? Because we have misunderstood the very fundamentals of morality and responsibility.
It is not that only patient and doctor fight, doctor and doctor fight too. But their fight is subtle at mental and emotional level. But if it overflows, it becomes something else, that is not different from the patient-doctor fight. It shows the gap between patient-doctor. People are seeing them as two different species.
Now the question is, why does this happen? Whether it’s the patient or the doctor, both are caught up in the same nonsense—too identified with their bodies, their titles, their families, their egos. Both are corrupted, not in the sense of taking bribes, but in the sense of how tightly they are clinging to their identities. A pig rolling in mud is very clear about what it is—it doesn’t pretend to be something else. But humans? Oh, they are endlessly pretending, endlessly identifying with this and that.
Until we create a society where people know how to manage themselves, this will continue. Look at our education system—what does it teach you? It teaches you to read, write, calculate, and memorize nonsense. It doesn’t teach you how to manage your thoughts, emotions, or energies. Doctors are taught how to treat a broken bone, but not how to handle his own emotion, his own thought process. Of course, patient-doctor are in the same boat. Let's not see them as two different species. The result? Chaos in society.
What we need is self-parenting—this means you don’t need someone else to control you because you are in charge of yourself. And this is where Yoga comes in—not as a mechanical process of bending and twisting your body but as a means to align your system, to create a certain quality within you. If every individual had this alignment, you wouldn’t need rules or policing. It’s not that conflicts wouldn’t happen, but they would never escalate into madness.
See, people say doctors are noble professionals, but then they also say the customer is king. What a deadly combination! The “king” comes to the hospital frustrated with his illness and expects the “noble” doctor to act like a servant. When both are frustrated and unbalanced, what do you expect? The result is cats and dogs, barking and biting, not humans.
You don’t have to be a yogi or a saint to fix this—just some simple understanding will do. If you come as a human being, you must know how to behave. But right now, behavior is missing, morals are missing, ethics are missing. And when these things are corrupted in every family, every institution, what will that society look like? It will look like chaos.
The solution is not in punishment; the solution is in transformation. Punishment can restrain someone for a while, but transformation is what changes the game. This is what Yoga and inner technology are about—creating a society that doesn’t need rules because its people are self-regulated. If we don’t move in this direction, we are only postponing a bigger disaster. Let’s not wait for the system to collapse before we realize how to be human. Let’s fix it now.
Doctors and Diagnostic Tools: Where Did We Go Wrong?
Look, these days patients are saying, "Oh, doctors do too many investigations, we won’t go to them!" What nonsense! A doctor does diagnosis, but since when did doctors become diagnostic centers themselves? Somewhere along the line, doctors forgot how to diagnose with their eyes, ears, and intuition. They handed it all over to machines. Now the machines are doing all the diagnosing while the doctor just prints reports and prescribes pills.
A real doctor should be independent of these diagnostic tools. These machines are fantastic, but they’re not meant for every sneeze and scratch. Diagnostic tools should be used in emergency situations, or to monitor how the system is evolving—whether it’s upgrading or deteriorating. Not for every little chronic ailment! But today, it’s all about scans, scans, and more scans. Did you know an X-ray can do more harm than good in many cases? Nobody tells you this because it’s not convenient to the system. But the fact is, all this radiation from diagnostic machines is not just harming you—it’s harming the planet itself.
Scientific research indicates that human-generated radiation, including that from medical devices like X-ray machines, scanners, contributes to the overall radiation levels in the Earth's atmosphere.
Scientific research says this—because of the radiation being pumped out by these diagnostic machines, no new frequencies can enter the atmospheric layers. Can you believe this? It’s like the Earth is becoming a prison. No fresh input from nature, no fresh energy can come in because we’re blocking it all with our machines. This is not just healthcare, this is human irresponsibility on a cosmic scale!
And look at the patients—first, they complain about too many tests. Then they start doing self-diagnosis! Have you seen this? They sit with their smartphones, search for their symptoms, and decide what is wrong with them. They don’t even know how their own system works, yet they think they can figure it all out on Google. And then they come to the doctor and argue, "I already know what’s wrong with me, you just give me the prescription!" This is the height of arrogance.
Patients think because they paid the doctor, they own the doctor. "I paid you, so you must behave how I want." This is not a doctor-patient relationship; this is a transactional mess. Where is the humility? If you don’t know what’s wrong with you, it’s your responsibility to go to the doctor and ask with sincerity. And it is the doctor’s responsibility to look at you as a human being, not just as a walking MRI scan or a potential prescription slip. A doctor must use his brilliance, his talents, his understanding before turning to machines. Otherwise, he is no longer a healer; he’s just a technician.
This sickness—this arrogance and ignorance—comes because morality, self-parenting, and basic behavior are missing. When you don’t know, you must have the humility to admit it and seek help. But that humility is gone. And doctors, too, must take responsibility. If you only rely on machines and forget to use your own intelligence, you are no longer fulfilling your role.
See, both the patient and the doctor are in the same mess. One is lost in ignorance; the other is lost in dependency. Unless both elevate themselves, this cycle of misbehavior and mistrust will continue.
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