Musings Own Thoughts

I think that this phrase is often quoted with respect to people who are respected in society for their higher qualities. The words we hear are What a great person is so and so and yet see how simply he lives his life. This suggests that greatness in thought does not go along with simplicity in living.  If I were to ask randomly individuals how do they define Simple Living the answers will vary with most persons in terms of weather simple living is seen as austerity,uncomplicated relationships or even passive existence. Similarly High Thinking the answers will vary too. It may mean scholarly intellectual thought, value driven thinking or even type of thinking when one is high on spirits.  So in my quest to make sense of this phrase I searched the origin of this quotation if any. The name of Mahatma Gandhi came on top and the Bhagavad Gita. I wonder weather it was the Google algorithm related to my browsing history that created this. On a deeper dive this was a saying from the A...

 Today in this blog I am attempting to write about Dr. Burjorji Antia, Senior Partner and Solicitor of Mulla & Mulla Craigie Blunt and Caroe a Solicitor firm located in Mumbai in a building called Mulla House in the precincts of the iconic Flora Fountain Building. As a person from the medical field I never knew Dr. Antia and even as my father was a small time lawyer the world of solicitors and lawyers of this kind and their daunting offices were for me another world.  In the mid nineties as an Orthopedic surgeon struggling to establish practice the easiest thing was to take an attachment to Parsi General Hospital where I was potentially given an opportunity to treat and admit Parsee patients. For non Parsee patients I was told by my colleagues to get an attachment to Masina Hospital in Byculla which was considered a very old and ordinary hospital with a crumbling infrastructure and very basic equipment. In the pregoogle era Mr. Burjor Antia for me was an unknown writer a s...

In my capacity and years as Hospital Administrator I have often pondered on this question and tried to answer it as best as I can. A hospital is today expected to fulfill its basic function of providing healthcare outcomes to all its stakeholders. These include three main groups.  The first are service users or patients who seek a cure for their ailments and who seek information about their health in the form of medical education, preventive medical advise support services of rehabilitation.  The second are the service providers who include doctors, nurses and paramedical staff.  The last are the employees of the hospital who provide support service front office, security and safety, facility management and IT support.  A smooth Hospital like an organization has many more hidden layers supporting it like nutritional support, transportation services, counseling and much more.  Any organization especially one with a very old legacy and lineage carries a perception...