About a couple of days back a judge at the Delhi High Court asked the government to take serious action on doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS, for having gone on strike on three separate days in the last one year even though the court had asked them not to in view of the suffering caused to patients. It is nice to see the judge's heart bleeding for the suffering of patients but it would be little more credible if the judge had asked the government why, after sixty years of independence, people still lacked basic medical care. He should have asked why doctors had to resort to this extreme step which most doctors hate doing. They have to do this for their own protection because assault on doctors and molestation of lady doctors are common occurrences. The judge did not make it mandatory for the authorities to guarantee their safety while on duty. The judge should have asked why it is alright for members of parliament to disrupt proceedings on a regular basis and do very little work. He should have asked why lawyers frequently resort to strikes without any punishment. More than 30 million cases are pending in courts but that does not cause any shame. Last week judgement was delivered in a property dispute after 70 years of litigation. When the law is seen to be the tool of repression by scum politicians then people turn to Naxals. Before taking away the basic right to life away from doctors the judge should have remembered that Che Guevara was a doctor.