Re: To Ashok,and Ravi Kumar

[Guest guest]

Dear Shyam,

To name a few areas where spirituality, philosophical views of life and death

are assuming increasing importance in modern medicine -

End of life issues, Quality of life issues and Do not resuscitate orders in

terminally ill patients.

I am sure you are aware of the emerging subspeciality of mind body medicine

where yoga is centerstage...incidentally yoga is not a bunch of physical

exercises.

In USA the National Institutes of Health is funding so many studies and trials

in these areas of medicine including meditation and its healing power.

Instead of abhoring spirituality topics lets follow the American way of

tactfully keeping religion out though spirituality might be intertwined with

religion.

Another emerging speciality is of medical ethics and there are nationally

renowned bioethicists who are consulted in difficult cases or in law suits in

quasi euthanasia situations.

So my dear friend....spirituality is centerstage not only in medicine but in

modern world as well.

A good physician is one who heals the body & mind and is not oblivious to the

spirit.

Each of us should consciously keep religious references or beliefs out of

these discussions and if someone slips he can be gently reminded of the same.

To me its seems such an irony that we are so caught up in the materialistic

aspects of medicine that we sometimes become oblivious to the basic tenets of

medicine such as compassion and service and caring of the human spirit.

Debates are not unhealthy -- going after each other's necks is.....taking

things too personally is...not being a sport is....

Ashok Bhaskar 1984

shyamkamath wrote:

Dear Ashok,

I am surprised to see u, come out here, so frequently ,in last one week (2 times

to be precise).

Dear friend,I represent one of the majority,who is active and so felt the need

to butt in.

I understand that u very much like to discuss Spiritual and Philosophical

viewpoints and would like this site to add some views on this topics as well.

But,dear Ashok,I agree to Kishoreda's viewpoint,that although these views r

universal,the religious flavour gets added to such views very soon,and a couple

of mails

later,the debate begins,which has too much of sparks flying all over,resulting

in either the moderator himself or someone coming in to pacify the

discussions,like it so

happened the other day,when an extremely docile contributor,Ravi Kumar,who

always swears allegiance to Bacardi,and other heavenly spirits,before

writing,too got

extremely emotional,when NASA beamed pictures were asked to be commented by

another writer......

I personally have come to the conclusion,(I maybe definitely wrong,from ur

angle),that Religion,Philosophical and Spiritual views,ARE A VERY PERSONAL

MATTER,and

must not find place to discuss on a public platform.

Thanks.

Shyam(84)

Fun and entertainment only !! / Ashok

>A ban on religion as an its practice as well as making references to a

>particular religion- I fully agree.

> But kicking Spirituality / Philosophy out doesn't make sense --

> especially in this group of doctors who deal with life and death often

> time.

> Bioethics is an evolving discipline which is critically important to

> practice of modern medicine....this is an area where religion and medicine

> get invariably intertwined !

> << " Lets stick to fun and entertainment " >>

> How do you define it ?

> Everybody's concept of fun is different.

> Like some people like to talk about recipes, some like jokes (unrated

> too) there is many who would have FUN discussing spirituality, politics,

> current affairs etc etc.

> I don't think limiting the scope of this group to some members' concept

> of fun, ignoring others' is such a FUN idea.

> Ashok Bhaskar ' 1984

>

>

> Shah wrote:

> As you know, Meena (and others),

>

> we have already discussed these topics endlessly before. Due to the

> objections of many members, it was decided that we should refrain from

> sending or forwarding such mails, which relate to religion and

> spirituality.

>

> Instead of a fun spot for ex-MGIMS people, it starts becoming a Satsang. A

> similar ban was put on political mails, because then it turned into a

> battlefield.

>

> Kishore Shah 1974

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