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One of the leading national news channels is doing a special report on medical negligence this week. I\u2019m not surprised that there was the need.
Reservations and \u2018payment seats\u2019 rule medical education in the country. Probably reservations for the weaker sections of the society in undergraduation make sense. But what sense does it make to hold reservations at the post-graduation level? Don\u2019t you think that at some level merit should be the sole basis for selection, especially in an essential service like healthcare? [Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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One of the leading national news channels is doing a special report on medical negligence this week. I\u2019m not surprised that there was the need.Reservations and \u2018payment seats\u2019 rule medical education in the country. Probably reservations for the weaker sections of the society in undergraduation make sense. But what sense does it make to hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[61,60],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-news","tag-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Suman Kumar","author_link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/author\/suman-kumar\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"One of the leading national news channels is doing a special report on medical negligence this week. 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