 Summary of this article
- When doctors are accused of terrorism, trust in the medical profession is shaken. It raises questions of the psychology of radicalisation, and the urgent need for ethics, reflection, and accountability in medical training.
- For a country where the doctor in a white coat is still instinctively trusted more than the politician or the policeman, the very idea that some doctors might be involved in planning mass murder feels like a moral earthquake.
- Security experts remind us that militant leadership has often been drawn from educated classes; what is unusual in the Delhi Blast is the clustering of several doctors in one alleged module.
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