India, June 7 -- Over a cup of evening tea
Last week I wrote about the kind of life led by many medical students, who take their own sweet time to pass out of medical colleges and become doctors, with some of them even dropping out from the courses altogether and pursuing other fields of life, often ending up earning more than what most other doctors can even hope to earn. Although there was no cap in the past on how much time would be allowed for a student to complete the five-year MBBS course, things are now about to change, with the National Medical Council (NMC) proposing to restrict this time period to only ten years.
Though I passed my MBBS course very comfortably, within the stipulated time frame, with good grades too, I had a very...