Research can be done anywhere: TMCI Chief

Mangalore, February 4: The medical researches need not necessarily take place in prestigious, well infrastructures research centres and institutes, rather genuine willingness to research and find something new, can make medicos to research even in the ordinary condition, said Tata Memorial Cancer Institute (Mumbai) Director Dr Anil D'Cruz.

He was delivering a talk on “Moulding Medicos to Medical Research” at the inaugural function of 'Medicine Update-2012,' a three-day symposium organised by the Department of Medicine and Medical Specialities of Fr Muller Medical College at Knowledge Centre on Friday. Dr D'Cruz encouraged the medicos to take up researches by stating the examples of James Lind who was the first medical researcher in the world to perform research in the adverse condition in 1700s and of Dr H S Bhanaskar from Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra who despite being a small town researcher has conducted some of the best researches. He said that some of the greatest researches in medicine have come up in adverse conditions.

Pointing at the failure of medicos in offering best treatment to the patients, Dr Anil said that the type of treatment offered to the cancer patients in Mumbai and Chennai is different. “If the doctors cure cancer patients by conducting surgery in Mumbai hospitals, on the contrary in Chennai majority of the cancer patients are treated with radio therapy. Each doctor sticks to a notion that whatever treatment he is offering is good, but then a doctor should think in terms of the treatment that is best for the patient,” he insisted.

He also gave a call to the medicos not to ignore the outcome of the researches while treating the patients. The doctors tend to disregard several research outcomes the result of which was later shown on the patients, he said.

Earlier inaugurating the function, former Lokayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde asked the medical students and doctors to be true to their profession. Of late, the Hippocrates oath the medical students take while stepping to the field seems like taking hypocrite oath. There is difference between being a person and being a human. The doctors need to be human and provide self less service to the society, he said. He also stressed on the necessity to improve the condition of rural hospitals and insisted the doctors to change their attitude.

FMCI Director Fr Patrick Rodrigues presided over. Dr Sundar Bhat and Prof Narasimha Hegde from Fr Muller Institution were felicitated on the occasion for completing their 25 years service in FMCI.