You finish your MBBS and start looking for non academic junior doctor positions in private hospitals. You submit your CV everywhere, only to be told that there are no vacancies. This is because, these corporate hospitals are willing to employ BAMS and BHMS graduates in clinical settings, including ICUs, sometimes at salaries as low as Rs 15k–20k because cheaper labour makes better business sense. These people are eating your jobs in essential. These people are considered equivalent to you everywhere, they eat crores of funds in the name of 'research', harm their patients ultimately increasing the burden of healthcare in this country. Your years of medical training are being undervalued because employers can hire cheaper alternatives. Because the govt. has legalised alternative system of medicine and somehow turns a blind eye to their ill practices, while simultaneously helicopter parenting our fraternity. A government recognised degree does not magically transform an unproven medical claim into established science. The Ministry of AYUSH became an independent ministry in 2014, and the medical community should be asking difficult questions about the consequences of these policies. Under the Modi government, the promotion of AYUSH and the push towards integrating different systems of medicine have intensified concerns about mixopathy. The scientific temperament of this entire country, particularly the doctors has gone downhill since 2014, because it gave a chance to these religious and cultural bigots to justify pseudoscience with the government accreditation. If you are a healthcare worker, I hope you can only fathom the damage this government has done to the healthcare system of this country.