By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
Almost all over our country and even in our own city you can see some itinerant families who practice traditional medicine on the roadside. All of them invariably ply their trade from a dilapidated van that has changed many hands and has certainly seen better days in better hands before landing up with them. I cannot help feeling that since it spends the last lap of its life in the hands of ‘doctors’ its fate can be said to be very similar to the fate of people who as patients spend their last days in the care and company of their doctors!
