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The (Missing) Human Touch

Dr. Alok Pandey

Abstract
In the race towards sophisticated medical systems, we have somewhere lost the human touch.
Money and machines are the new lords now, rather than compassion and the personal touch. It is
time to take a relook at our medical education and ask where we are heading. This article explores
this issue of building healers rather than standardised medicine dispensing-machines.

more obvious, not only from destructive
inventions, but also from those technological
developments that are apparently meant
to help humanity, such as drugs, vaccines,
all technology-based healthcare. For all its
marvellous interventive ability, it has no
doubt weakened our natural immunity to
diseases, of which increasing incidents of
malignancies, new diseases and epidemics,
young age heart attacks and sudden deaths
are a reminder that all is not well. Perhaps
Introduction we need to pause and look at the road we
have chosen to travel in, the road that has
Humanity, as a race, seems to be at the brought lot of wealth to healthcare managers
crossroads of evolution. The systems that but at the expense of our natural ability to
our mind-based civilisation has built seem fight disease.
to have reached a peak from where further
development along the same lines, without Healing process
a commensurate development or evolution
of the human consciousness, can threaten Healing is a complex process, a package where
the human race itself. This danger of man a number of factors meet like the confluence
from man himself is becoming more and of rivers coming from different directions

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