The doctor-patient relationship has been strained over the past few years, but the health professionals from SMARTT Pune have come out with novel way to tackle the problem. Choosing theatre as a platform, We have come up with a comic drama to spread a social message. Titled as Doctor Mulga Nako Ga Bai (Don’t want a doctor groom), the nearly one-and-a-half hour play is the team work of more than a dozen doctors of different specialities.
Senior physician Anant Kadethankar, who has written and directed the play, said the drama is expected to serve as an effective platform to discuss issues faced by doctors. Psychiatrist Amol Deshmukh, who has played a lead role in the drama, said health professionals across the country were facing range of issues that need to be highlighted. Besides the attacks, doctors have to comply with stringent rules and regulations, and financial issues related to setting up hospitals. The drama voices out these issues in a light but effective manner, he said.
The drama revolves around parents looking for a groom for their daughter and encountering two prospective bachelors who happen to be doctors. While parents initially refuse to accept doctor as their son-in-law over a range of issues faced by doctors, they later have a change of heart due to dramatic and comic circumstances.