mumbai hectic meetings are on in three civicrun medical schools after a letter claiming to be written by a leading students association alleged mental torture assaults and public humiliation by senior doctors and department headssix unnamed professorstwo each from kem hospital in parel sion hospital and nair hospital near agripadahave been termed worst psychopaths against whom there is allegedly audiovisual evidence showing them shouting at resident doctors evidence is being gathered against 18 others says the lettermaking an indirect mention of dr payal tadvi a resident doctor who died by suicide at civicrun nair hospital in 2019 the letter claimed four to five residents of each super speciality department are in depression or suffer from anxietytoi spoke to resident doctors who denied their association the maharashtra state association of resident doctors mard had sent the letter it is learnt that mard representatives in these three colleges had been called for discussions and students are being encouraged to speak to counsellors about their complaints in the light of the allegations made in the lettersion hospital dean dr mohan joshi said he had met all department heads and super specialty doctors as the letter is anonymous there is little in terms of action that can be taken he said nair hospital dean dr pravin rathi said he has received the letter three times so far and has held multiple meetings a senior doctor said the letter appeared to be a work of mischiefpublic medical schools which see heavy patient load and need many trained hands are traditionally acknowledged as better places for young doctors but the letter said some surgical residents in super speciality departments had not done a single elective surgery in their threeyear stint allegations refer to professors turning up at public hospitals only to mark their attendance and running off to private hospitals they are allowed to be attached to