Do you believe the sons and daughters
will have to bear the weight of their fathers’ sins like they inherit their
fortune? Well, I don’t have any definite answer. I have been taught to keep
away the fortune, which has blood on it, not literally blood, but the money,
which is not earned in a right way. Yeah, that is a thing, which we can try to
do. But what about knowledge, that has been obtained distilling sufferings and
pains of innocent human beings? As a man of modern medicine, who believes and
practices the ways of science that has been evolved as a result of hard work of
numerous famous and infamous people belonging to several generations, I think I
am obliged to carry a part of their sins too.
The first and primary principle of
modern medicine is ‘do no harm’. It makes sense and it is easy to practice in a
usual clinical case, given the comfort of advanced pharmacological and
anesthetic facilities available now a days. There was a time when pain was
inevitable part of medical treatment. Thanks to our forefathers who had spent
their lives developing and researching, providing todays comfort. As we go
through the history books, we come across many of them. A great majority of
these physicians are not mentioned anywhere, but still it is imaginable how
these people contributed.
Same time, when we go back to
history of medicine, we come across notorious doctors who operated on normal
people for no reason, patients with no reason and painful procedures, which
were used to make a normal person insane. The time, when women were subjected to
cruel surgeries without their consent, the outlaws and slaves were treated as
guinea pigs, the holocaust victims upon whom grave experiments were done is not so far. There is no end to the list of declassified project reports, which
include injecting harmful substances to normal people and withholding standard
available treatments to patients without their consent for the purpose of
research. It is understandable that we do not print those names in history
books as glorious chapters, but sure we do make use of knowledge attained
through such inhuman experiments.
So, having evil past will make us
evil? I don’t know. But if there is something as inherited sins, then I think
it is not going to be contained with the man of medicine, I am sure, the
patients or people who are benefited from the use of those knowledge are also going
to share those sins. Sure, there has to be a heart of hardened feelings to be a
true man of medicine. We practice our knowledge upon the patients in good
faith.
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