Trick or Treat - a survival guide to health care
12 Whose perspective? The Man and the Lion: A man and a lion were travelling together. They started comparing their superiority, prowess, skills and courage. Presently, they came across a statue of a man subduing a lion. "Look at this," said the main pointing to
the statue, "the man is indeed stronger than the lion.� "That is because a man has sculpted this statue," said the lion, "If a lion could sculpt statues, I am sure you would see the man underneath and the lion on top."
Ram and Ralph were friends from their school days. Ralph got into an MBBS course
and became a physician while Ram graduated in an alternate system of medicine. Once they got into an argument about their systems of medicine. Each highlighted the
greatness of his system of medicine. To clinch the argument in his favour, Ram showed
him a big advertisement gloating about his system. "Not so fast, Ram," said Ralph, "That is your view point from your perspective. If we could also advertise like you, I am sure we would be shown to be the best." Comments The World Health Organisation has said that all systems of health care have their
place in modern day practice. A parallel may be drawn from various modes of travel. There is a need for travel by a jet, a car, a bicycle or even by walk depending on the
distance, time and expenses involved. Just because walking is an ancient and slow
method, it can't be ruled out as a mode of travel in the modern times. Similarly, 39
