Dr.Bhooshan Shukla MD डॉ. भूषण शुक्ल
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Psychiatrist (Child & Adolescent), Parenting Coach, Corporate Speaker, Preventing Child Sex Abuse since 2000. Member @rcpsych #Sarcasm +++ #Marathi #Sanskrit
This session is for kids only so no staff member is allowed in the room. Some questions should not be answered if it requires inappropriate language in the answer as POCSO law penalises such conversations between and adult and child. They are full of giggles of relief and high fives because children feel really empowered with knowledge and actual experience of non judgemental Q&A session. (I don’t ask them their names at any point in the session, i tell them about it right in the beginning) Feedbacks about these sessions are consistently and overwhelmingly positive.
As a typical Indian doctor, I meet thousands of people in my clinic every year. My work with family court, Indian medical association, students of various disciplines, juvenile justice system, prison, NGOs, film & theater, etc. brings me in contact with people from literally ALL walks of life. A person believing in stereotypes of gender, caste, religion, language, social strata, nationality, occupation, has simply not looked beyond surface. Never too late to truly open eyes and appreciate diversity of human mind.
My exposure to rural practice is as assistant to urologist during my medical college days, rural internship and as visiting psychiatrist to rural areas around Pune (Maharashtra) in my initial days of practice. Harassment – by local politicians, government officials and anyone with any coercive power is a major reason to avoid villages. In many places, as soon as you start work/practice, you need to visit all these powerful people at their homes and offices and offer your gratitude in words, actions, services and money too. Harassment politicians and govt officials are the reason doctors avoid government jobs in cities as well.
In Maharashtra, we have Amte Family (3 generations), Bang family (2 generations), Bawiskar family and Kolhe family devoted to this work. Utter failure of governance in these areas is the real reason why individual families have to make ultimate sacrifice in service of poor. It is inconceivable that a highly educated doctor will take her/his family to remote area where even drinking water is not available and everyone around is looking for a way to migrate to cities for better life. I honestly wish that rural development and economic development reaches a level where doctors will be honored for their innovative work in treatments and services and not for sacrificing their life due to failure of governance.