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Doctors - Gods....Really ????

     On March 12, an accident victim with a serious head injury was brought to the District Civil Hospital in Dhule. He was examined by an orthopaedic surgeon Dr.Rohan Mhamunkar. He informed the patient's family that the CT scan reveals a brain injury and the patient would require the opinion of a neurosurgeon and they would have to shift him to a bigger and better hospital as they didn't have one. The patient's family responded by slapping, beating and tearing his clothes. The video showed a mob punching him till he collapsed on to a metal cot. Following this several other incidents were reported were doctors were treated terribly by the patient's families.      Last week, some 4000 doctors in Maharashtra went on a strike to protest against assaults on resident doctors. The doctors demanded a safe working environment primarily and the medical equipment and facilities is still a very big concern in the government hospitals. But the chief justi...

Colours

      Today, we all are celebrating the auspicious festival of colours - Holi. This festival signifies the victory of good over evil. Also it is the arrival of the spring with the end of winter. Holika Dahan is on the previous night but people are always eagerly waiting for the next day which is the actual play. Balloons, Tanks of coloured water are prepared in advance, the music is all set and then its a splash of colours. There is no age or gender or caste differences on whether who should play Holi its a festival for all alike. There are all colours sprayed around today so I decided to give you a list of colours that we use in the English language to make it colourful. 1. When someone is in the best of health, we say the person is in the pink of health. 2. When something happens suddenly, we say it happened out of the blue or whether we want to tell  about an action that we do very rarely we say once in a blue moon.   3.   When something is no l...