Hello…Doctor…

Honoring you for your skill and commitment as a doctor

I don’t know, how many of us will really know that July 1st is Doctors day. I want to remember one of the doctor who came in my life. My feeling over the doctors is really different in general. Because they have seen lot of patients in their lifetime. They look at the patients as like a mechanical part of a machine. Like our Mechanical engineers look. (It’s my opinion previously) My childhood day onwards I had a fear to go to hospital. I am really a hesitant to take even tablets for my fever. I had a strange thought in my early ages. If a fellow attaches a feeling and sympathy over the patient, whether he can able to do the operations and so on. If he also emotionally tempted, how the scenario will go. Instead of looking every patient emotionally .its good to be rationale to the situation and the severity.
America’s Doctors day !!!
First Doctors' Day observance was March 30, 1933, in Winder, Ga. The idea came from Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Cha Almond, and the date was the anniversary of the first use of general anesthetic in surgery. (On March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long of Barrow County, Ga., used ether to remove a tumor from a patient's neck.)• The Barrow County Medical Society Auxiliary proclaimed the day "Doctors' Day," which was celebrated by mailing cards to physicians and their wives, and placing flowers on the graves of deceased doctors, including Dr. Long.• The United States House of Representatives adopted a resolution commemorating Doctors' Day on March 30, 1958. In 1990, legislation was introduced into the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate to establish a National Doctors Day. Following overwhelming approval by the House and Senate, then-President George Bush signed a resolution designating March 30 as National Doctors' Day. The first National Doctors' Day was celebrated in 1991.


India’s Doctors day!!!
How did first of July get to be designated Doctors’ Day in India. First of July happens to be the birthday of a very famous Physician of India, Dr B C Roy.
Dr B C Roy was born on July 1, 1882 at Bankipore in Patna in Bihar. His career as a physician started in 1911 when he came back to India from Bartholomew’s hospital in the UK having completed his MRCP. Thereafter, he joined the teaching staff of Calcutta Medical College and later moved to Campbell Medical School and then to Carmichael Medical College. He dedicated his life to the upliftment of Indian society, especially, the downtrodden.
Not only did he excel as a physician, he was an educationist, social reformer, freedom fighter (joined Mahatma Gandhi in the Civil Disobedience movement), leader of Indian National Congress and later chief minister of West Bengal. Dr B C Roy passed away on July 1, 1962 on his birthday.
Thus July 1st was considered an appropriate day to be designated as Doctors’ Day- a tribute to Dr B C Roy and the entire medical profession.