Elephant in The Doctors Room - Abstract

Welcome to Dr Maya Podcast.The podcast is the Key Note Address by The Chairman, Dr Kadiyali Srivatsa, Pioneer of Digitalising Patient Centerd Care, at the EuroCon Conference in April 2018 in Rome, Italy.This is the Abstract.We were preoccupied with whether or not we could; we did not stop to think if we should. It’s ironic, a fantasy movie, Jurassic Park, aptly describes the medical crisis we face today, I am talking about emerging and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and how to prevent them spread resulting in epidemics and pandemics that can kill 10 million people per year by 2050 [1,2]. We are now facing a mortal enemy that surpasses our Intelligence. A tiny microorganism has brought us to our knees. It has learned from us, adapted to us, and now exploits our genetic vulnerability with lethal precision. Pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, the government, and doctors have started accepting and acknowledging this as a significant crisis in the 21st century. Unfortunately, they offer incentives and financial support to projects and research that may never bring in the miracle cure and save millions of lives as they did in the past. By not guarding the miracle drug as custodians, we allowed antibiotics to fatten chickens and treat animals, encouraging nurses to use our clinical skills to diagnose illness, prescribe medicines, and chemists to sell antibiotics without the prescription. We have now lost the only drug that helped us fight infections, learn more about our body, make advances in medicine possible, perform surgical procedures, transplant surgery, IVF and Save millions of people. My mission is to help encourage members of our profession to share knowledge, Innovate and develop products and methods to fight infection. My message to members of my profession is to reduce wasted consultations, the cost of healthcare, antibiotic abuse, and cross infections and to help us fight this war with bugs we cannot see. I hope to discourage people in power, institutions, and pharmaceutical companies from this dream of inventing a miracle cure, tests, investigations and talking about boosting immunity, knowing the bugs are brighter, firmer and well adapted to survive and thinking of alternate strategies of integrating innovations to identify infected individuals and isolate them to protect humanity initially.