A Mumbai govt hospital advised a pregnant woman's family to consider transferring her elsewhere, as pre-delivery fetal assessment indicates her newborn will likely require NICU care, and all of their NICU beds are currently occupied.
The woman's husband called Shiv Sena (Shinde) corporator Ramesh Mhatre, who arrived with his goons and assaulted doctors and nurses.
If you understand how hospitals work, you'll know a bed not being available is not the doctor's fault. You can't ask another critical newborn to vacate a bed, nor can you provide NICU care on the floor, nor can you "arrange bed from some other dept" because a NICU bed isn't just a bed, it comes with ventilators, monitors, oxygen, infusion pumps, and other life-support equipment.
So the blame, if any, goes on the govt. But doctors are the easiest targets, and assaulting them earns politicians easy political mileage.
I know some will say, "Doctors are evil and deserve it," and that's fine. I'm not seeking sympathy. This post is for parents and medical aspirants. Unless your parents own a hospital, you choose govt jobs with better working conditions like the Army, paramilitary, or Railways, plan to pursue USMLE (or an equivalent pathway), or intend to move to private practice where you can arrange your own security, think carefully before choosing this profession.
Most govt hospitals are hellholes. You can serve patients well for decades and still end up being abused or assaulted by a tenth-pass corporator, a publicity-hungry politician chasing cameras, or patient relatives who think every death could have been prevented if only the doctor had "tried harder."
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Handwriting is not a motor skill. It is a reading skill.
We treat them as separate subjects, but neuroscience says they are the same circuit.
Last week I discussed Orthographic Mapping (OM). Many focus on the "sound" part, but miss the "motor" bridge. Here is why the hand teaches the brain to decode:
1. A common assumption is that writing is output (encoding) and reading is input (decoding). It turns out, they are physically linked in the brain. When literate adults read, their motor cortex (Exner’s Area) activates. You decode faster because your brain is secretly "writing" along with your eyes. It subconsciously simulates the strokes to recognize the letter instantly.
2. If a child has never physically written a letter, they lack this "motor file." They are forced to rely solely on visual memory to recognize the shape. Visual memory is notoriously weak for text because it is ambiguous. To a young kid's eye, 'b' and 'd' are the same object, just flipped (like a chair facing left vs. right). But to the hand? They are totally different. The distinct motor plan overrides the visual confusion.
3. When comparing handwriting with typing, the difference is stark. Hitting 'A' or 'B' feels exactly the same (a button press). It creates a weak map. Handwriting is constructive. You have to pull the geometry of the letter from memory. This "active construction" burns the neural pathway that makes decoding instantaneous later on. You can't easily read what you haven't physically mapped.
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Health Insurance Fraud : कोई भी व्यक्ति बुरे वक्त के लिए हेल्थ इंश्योरेंस लेता है, मैने भी @policybazaar से @CareHealthIndia का ले लिया, इंश्योरेंस 2 करोड़ का है (wb), घर के एक सदस्य की तबियत खराब हुई, डॉ को दिखाया तो उन्होंने एडमिट करने को बोला, हमने एडमिट कर दिया, इंश्योरेंस लेने की कभी सोची नहीं हमेशा अपने पैसे से इलाज करवा लिया तो कभी पता ही नहीं चला कि हेल्थ इंश्योरेंस के नाम पर कैसा फ्रॉड चल रहा है
इस बार सोचा ज़रा ट्राई तो करें इंश्योरेंस क्लेम का एक्सपीरियंस कर लेते हैं, सो महज 10-20 हजार का बिल बनना था हमने कैशलैस क्लेम पर डाल दिया, सोचिए करोड़ों का इंश्योरेंस और मात्र कुछ हजार का क्लेम, लेकिन मुझे झटका तब लगा जब डिस्चार्ज करवाते समय पता चला कि क्लेम रिजेक्ट हो गया, ग़ज़ब!!
तकरीबन 10-15 साल से हेल्थ इंश्योरेंस ले रखा है, सिर्फ प्रीमियम भरा आज तक कभी क्लेम नहीं लिया, प्रीमियम भी थोड़ा बहुत नहीं 65,000/- प्रति वर्ष, 2 वर्ष care को भरा यानी तकरीबन 1,30,000/- प्रीमियम भरा और सोचिए इतना भरने के बाद महज 10 हजार का क्लेम रिजेक्ट हो गया, अच्छा हुआ इतने में ही इनकी औकात पर चल गई कल को अगर बिल करोड़ों का होता किसी गंभीर बीमारी का तब तो अपन इंश्योरेंस ले कर भी मर जाते बिना इलाज करवाए, क्योंकि कंपनी क्लेम ही रिजेक्ट कर देती फिर इलाज कहां से करवाते
सोचिए इंश्योरेंस wb 2 करोड़ का, अपन सोच रहे थे 2cr तक तो कोई दिक्कत नहीं है अगर कभी कुछ हुआ तो इंश्योरेंस तो है ना, लेकिन आज पर चला कि कोई इलाज/क्लेम नहीं मिलने वाला, भाई प्रीमियम भरो बस इलाज की उम्मीद मत करना, वो आपको अपने पैसे से ही करवाना है और क्लेम भी नहीं मिलेगा
इस साल 3 करोड़ का करवाने वाला था, और इस से पहले ही इंश्योरेंस की असलियत सामने आ गई, भगवान का जितना धन्यवाद दूं उतना कम है, आज मैं बस इतना ही कहूंगा इंश्योरेंस एक फ्रॉड के सिवाय कुछ नहीं है, हालांकि मैं इस मामले को सुप्रीम कोर्ट तक ले कर जाऊंगा, इन्हें सबक तो जरूर सिखाऊंगा
कृपया इस पोस्ट को शेयर कर हर व्यक्ति तक पहुंचाएं, और कितने लोग हैं जिन्हें इंश्योरेंस ने ठगा है, वे भी अपनी आप बीती साझा करें
@Niva_Bupa@NivaBupa1874295 Before renewing, I had confirmed with your medical team that chemotherapy daycare would be covered. I renewed the policy only after that assurance.
@Niva_Bupa@NivaBupa1874295 I've been calling customer care, mailing the grievance cell, and repeatedly explaining to agents—but no one from your medical team has reached out even once to verify the treatment.
@Niva_Bupa@NivaBupa1874295 My daycare claim for chemotherapy, approved in April 2025, is now being rejected as OPD under Clause 6.2.14—despite Clause 3.5 clearly covering daycare treatment.