🚨 EXPOSING THE SYSTEMIC TOXICITY: ORTHOPEDICS, GMC KOZHIKODE 🚨 THE TOXIC CHAIN STOPS NOW. NO MORE SILENCE.
The Orthopedics Department of Kozhikode Medical College is brutal and inhumane.
The systemic harassment, evasion of duty and slave labor that has been going on for years within the walls of the Orthopedics Department of Government Medical College, Kozhikode cannot be tolerated any longer. This is not just a workload as part of the PG course; rather, it is a brutal and inhuman treatment that is destroying the careers and mental health of junior doctors.
The JR2 and JR3 stay away from the ward, casualty and emergency duties without any participation! They operate like part-time consultants, attending EOT, MOT only. Who gave them this privilege?
This is a strange arrangement where after working all day, they come at 12:00 AM and 2:00 AM to wake up the poor patients and Juniors and make them do their rounds! This is Pure Torture for the patients and a complete violation of basic patient dignity.
Due to this crazy timing, the work flow in the department is completely blocked. Paperwork and casualty work is going on till dawn and the JR1s and house surgeons are completely overwhelmed.
While the seniors are away from duty, the poor JR1s and house surgeons have to bear the entire burden of the department. It is an extremely dangerous situation where they have to work continuously for 36 to 48 hours without sleep!
These juniors are pushed to absolute physical and mental breakdown due to the unending ward work even after 12:00 AM or 2:00 AM.
This is Poor to ZERO Patient Care! Other departments run systemic rounds and duty handovers— where is the professional accountability in Ortho? Why do they tolerate this absolute hell?
Juniors are forced to endure all this just because seniors have the opportunity to perform surgery in MOT and EOT. Taking advantage of this single reason, JR2s and JR3s turn their juniors into literal slaves. How can we tolerate this?
When GMCK brings out the toxicity in Ortho, there are some professors who come forward with even more brutal responses.
The idiots who dismiss the mental breakdown and hard work of juniors with mere ridicule! "
If it had been earlier, I would have taken it and thrown it away!" – this is their constant refrain. When talking about toxicity, they justify cruelty by saying, "You can't do anything, we have endured worse in our time"!
By protecting the toxic JR2/JR3s and throwing prehistoric tantrums, these professors are directly validating institutional ragging.
When the cracks in this toxic system recently became too obvious to hide, instead of taking dynamic steps to fix the structural rot, voices within the department shifted the entire narrative.
They chose institutional cowardice. Instead of reprimanding the JR2s and JR3s for chronic duty evasion, official voices within the department launched a targeted blame-shifting campaign.