Indian medical education will soon become a cringe fest, so much that none of the other countries of the world will accept its [true] value.
In this standard ENT textbook taught to students in MBBS, the author, Professor P.L. Dhingra claims that at 20 weeks of gestation, when the cochlea of the ear is developed, the fetus can probably hear in the womb of the mother - ok, all well - but then compares it to how Abhimanyu, when still unborn, heard the conversation between his mother and father, Arjuna in the Indian Hindu religion-related classical epic Mahabharata.
Is this how medical science is taught these days?
Instead, the author could have simplified the physiology and response of fetal hearing through published facts, such as this paper:
https://t.co/ktB23IJgKG - or discussed facts such as why the term infant cannot recognize or discriminate meaningful sounds with background noise levels greater than 60 dB - https://t.co/2LuFjn28JF
Medical educators must first study how not to mix religion into a fact-based teaching resource.
Education in medicine is a serious matter and one that cannot be trivialised on examples of fictionalized epic stories. I hope the next editions will feature less stories and more objective facts.