Emotional regulation is a survival skill in the medical field. The Mahabharata, specifically the Gita, provides the archetype of the —the person of steady wisdom. Krishna describes this person as one who is not disturbed by adversity or elated by success. For a surgeon, this equanimity prevents "halo error" or reckless overconfidence after a successful surgery, while also guarding against despair following an inevitable patient loss.
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While there isn't an official medical doctrine under the specific title the concept refers to the intersection of ancient Indian ethics and modern medical practice. Practitioners often look to the Mahabharata —an epic centered on Dharma (duty/righteousness)—to navigate the complex moral dilemmas faced in clinical settings.
Stepping into a hospital often feels like stepping onto the battlefield of Kurukshetra Emotional regulation is a survival skill in the
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This is Arjuna’s crisis. The medico’s “enemy” is not the patient, nor the disease, but the paralysis of competing duties : duty to the patient’s autonomy, duty to beneficence, duty to non-maleficence, duty to justice. The modern term is “moral distress.” The Mahabharata calls it the precondition for wisdom.
Medical ethics is a cornerstone of modern practice—autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. But the Mahabharata was wrestling with these concepts millennia before the Hippocratic Oath was codified in modern medical colleges.