Family Feud???

It's 12 days after the commencement of the nationwide NMA strike and there seems to be no end in sight. Some of my colleagues are bored stiff and are beginning to wonder what the point was in the first instance? A lot of people have said and written a lot of things, most of which have painted doctors as inhuman. Doctors have also written articles and have presented JOHESU as overbearing. And the patients who bear the brunt of this "Clash of the Titans" are dying per second! The management of a patient is often multi disciplinary and no one can dispute this fact. The present power tussle between NMA and JOHESU can be likened to the war that occurs in a home when the Husband believes he is the Head, hence a dictator and the wife believes both of them are equals, hence she won't be submissive. Both of them are right and at the same time wrong. The husband is the head but shouldn't be a dictator or tyrant. The wife isn't her husband's slave, yet she has to be submissive. However, some marriages have broken down because of the inability of both parties to understand and maintain this balance. In the same vein, Doctors and JOHESU are at war and aren't listening to each other. There is an order, which has always been maintained. If a change to this order must occur, let it be clearly legalised and let the boundaries be known to all. How can two walk together except they agree? A house divided against itself cannot stand. If these issues are not quickly resolved as a matter of urgency, the silent rivalry that I observed as a medical student and now face as a medical doctor will escalate into a cold war which will spread as an epidemic and destroy the already sickly health sector! Let all concerned parties come down from their high horses and settle these matters like adults. People have died, people are dying and more will die even after this strike is suspended! But God forbid that more lives that could have been salvaged were lost because of our actions! What then, is the essence of our Profession?  Be it a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, radiologist, physiotherapist or lab technician? How good and pleasant it is for health professionals to live and dwell in unity.