Two doctors were having a leisurely lunch on the banks of a river. While eating they noticed a body floating in the water. Both jumped in the water and dragged the person out of water and started resuscitating him. While busy saving the person, they noticed two more bodies floating in the river. They jumped again and dragged both out and started providing first aid. Again they noticed that many more bodies were coming their way. One of these doctors jumped into the water again to save them while the other, instead of jumping into water, started running upstream.

The doctor in the water shouted to his friend: "John, you don't want to save them?"

"First I need to find out why they are falling into the river," answered the second doctor.

The moral of the story is that instead of focusing on symptoms, you need to find out the actual cause and treat it. Providing clinical care after certain numbers becomes impossible for any health system unless you figure out why people are getting sick in the first........

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