In the last one week there have been revelations about private medical schools in the south demanding between one to four million rupees from candidates seeking admission. Apparently this came about as the result of a sting operation by a newspaper. Apparently the medical school in question belongs to a minister in Delhi elected last month. Our freeloading journalists must be either completely stoned or brain dead not have realised that most doctors practising in India are quacks. Firstly there is reservation for various scheduled castes, tribes, widows, ministers recommendations and so on which allows completely unfit candidates to get seats in medical schools. Then there are private schools where rich parents can pay millions to get there stupid children get medical degrees including postgraduate ones. The most perverted are the so called alternative medicine schools. Absolute duds enter shady ayurvedic, unani or homeopathy colleges, get some degree, put Dr. in front of their names and start prescribing allopathic medicines without even the basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology or phramacology. Even physiotherapists call themselves doctors and prescribe any drug they want without any control. Only the candidates that qualify for admission from the general list have some knowledge but to survive the competition from totally unscrupulous quacks they have to get down to that level. So the people die. If only we had an honourable press.