Also the original spelling of his last name was Dixit, he changed it to Dicksheet when he moved to America so that people could pronounce it better. The correct pronunciation is dick-shit.

WesternGhaat, I agree with your feelings, we should criticize the poor’s access to the health care.

There are different techniques to repair a cleft lip. Dr. Dicksheet likely trained when the Tennison repair was commonly done and appears to use this technique (based on the two on-table results in the video). It is done less so now that most cleft surgeons favor the Millard repair, but well respected cleft lip and palate centers in the US still perform the Tennison repair.

The question of surgical camps is a difficult one. I think if a surgeon commits himself/herself to a particular area and returns to that area on a regular basis to follow up on patients and repair complications, then a high standard of care can be delivered.

At the end of the day, indigent care in any country boils down to limited access and resources. I agree that India can do better just as the US can do better. Until then, people like Dr. Dicksheet will continue to work on the front lines. We should all support and applaud those efforts.

my point is that the fact that society needs to have a debate on access to health care and how we can do better.

no care at all isn’t the alternative —excellent health care exists in India –its just that poor people don’t have access to it. so,it might seem like semantics on my part,but it is a key distinction, but this is an issue more of access to good health care, not whether good health care exists. (the question of access to health care is indeed a universal question)

i don’t say all this to criticize this specific doctor –but more as part of a larger debate about access to health care.

And, when you have assembly line camps where a doctor flies in, does 70 surgeries in one day, there is no apparent postoperative follow-up visit and we have no idea whether these people have successful outcomes ( a quick google search didn’t show me any data on long term outcomes or infection rates at these camps)— it is food for thought.

Do they have a choice? Their choice is not between substandard care and higher level of care. If it isn’t for these clinics, they might not get any care. Its lack of affordable care that makes what people like Dr Dicksheet does… not just essential, but noble.

i think that cataract surgery camps have a high eye infection rate —before i say this with certainty, i of course should have evidence to back me up–but, i don’t know, does this evidence exist? is there a long term follow up? do we know how these patients are doing at one and two years out from surgery? importantly, what is the infection rate? 70 surgeries a day–how are they ensuring the most stringent sterile precautions? are they reusing instruments? or are they sterilizing the instruments in between?

a middle income person or a rich person would never consent to a surgery in a camp so, is it okay for poor people to receive a different level of care than rich people?

But does providing substandard care to poor illiterate patients become Noble and just , as long as you are doing it with compassion and in good faith? I am still searching for the correct answer…..

Wow! This guy is the gold standard people should be judged by. How many dicksheets are you? 0.002? 0.004?

A fantastic notion.

is there any info on the outcomes, complication rate and success rate of these operations? thats a lot of operations in one day , especially for a surgeon who doesn’t have full use of one hand–which means each patient cant be getting much time spent on him/her.