and nursing homes society phnhs maharashtra was the first state to pass a legislation against assault on doctors in 2010 but 12 years on convictions are still close to zero he addedcountrywide protests by doctors after the dausa tragedy forced the rajasthan police to change the fir but nothing much has changed in the state dr kapoor says the main accused are now out on bail a senior police official who was awaiting posting orders has got the posting he observes adding that the rajasthan medicare service persons and medicare service institutions prevention of violence and damage to property act 2008 is still in cold storagejust one strict conviction will bring about change says dr lalit kapoorif the cycle of violence never stops india will pay an even higher costwho wants to be a doctorheres what an indianamerican doctor sickened by whats happening to his fellow professionals in india says if mob justice continues unabated medicine will become even less popular and fewer doctors will elect to help the sickest and most disenfranchised mobs will turn even more viciously against the few brave ones who remain in governmentrun hospitalsthats from a blog by radiologist saurabh jha hospital of the university of pennsylvania dr jha writes he was secretly happy his niece in india decided against becoming a doctor medicine is stressful enough without doctors being worried about their personal safetywhat will happen if more and more bright young indians tomorrows potential doctors think the same waycontributions by malathy iyer from mumbai pushpa narayan from chennai somrita ghosh in delhi preetu nair from kochi shimona kanwar from chandigarhsaibal sen and prithvijit mitra from kolkata syed intishab ali from jaipur