Tarnishing reputations: the downside of medical activism.

in the late 1960s, I was warned of this possibility. Criticisms of that section of the medical profession that hurt patients or illtreated them or cheated them inevitably drew censure of my action. While there was never any dispute about the facts laid down by me in my papers, the admonitions I received were against tarnishing the profession. I was upset at this as I have always taken great care to point out that the miscreants were only a proportion of the professionals. Even so, I was roundly criticised at a public meeting of doctors under the aegis of the Indian Medical Association for censuring any member of the profession.