Dr. Monika Singh

I am somehow spiritually goaded into doing this. Money may be important for a doctor, but more important is his or her satisfaction. Even today, I am doing, together with my paediatrician husband, free OPDs once a week, for poor and marginalised patients. Thirty per cent of my patients are Muslim women who need lot of care during pregnancies. I enjoy working for those in the society who need more of emotional touch from a doctor than mere treatment ; it may appear a little cumbersome, but it's greatly satisfying. If I am able to help, through my humble efforts, even 5,000 children to grow into excellent human beings in one year, I will be a proud medical professional.

Why should we gynaecologists think our duty is merely to treat our patients, get deliveries done fine, feeling great after pulling infants out of the crisis zones ?

I strongly feel it is the doctor's duty to take command of the would-be parents as well, and train them, with little extra effort, on what to do with their kids when they come in their lives. And also, what to do when they are come of age. If we want a better generation, a better society, a value-based nation, we have to put in concerted efforts to raise our children in a manner that becomes conducive to their all-round growth.This effort will include taking moral values to them early, through a mechanism of constant prodding.