The doctors have a right to strike

As expected the politicians and communist(*) bloggers have started invoking the Hippocratic oath to criticise the doctors' strike.

Now, let us examine some parts of the oath. Here is the oath in its classical version. As you can see, this version of the oath by virtue of the rejection of abortion and gays would not cut it in the modern world. Therefore, a modern version is used today.

Salient portions:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
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I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

It is clear that the oath suggests that the doctors have a right to use their own judgement when they feel that the action or actions of certain groups is causing harm to the society as a whole.

Do peruse the site at your leisure. You will see that many doctors reject the oath in whole or part. Now there are two ways to look at it.

(a) Doctors are special. Hence they have special rights as well as special responsibilities. If this is the case, clearly as a whole you can not reject their judgement as to the critical selection process of medical colleges.

(b) Doctors are not special. If so, then certainly they do have a constitutionally protected right to strike.

As always, ministers are selectively using the above two. As far as striking is concerned, it is illegal since doctors are special. As far as reservations go, they are not special and hence have no judgement over marginally literate (**) ministers in the critical selection process. Let us remind our readers that doctors in all parts of the world, including Germany have struck work recently.

(*) Paradoxically, the roles of the communists and barbarians seem to have been reversed in their assessment of the strike. This is because it is an ideological war.

(**) With due respect to the readers who object to our use of profanities for our corrupt ministers, we adopt a no holds barred policy from now on. Enough is enough.