Change the Locks

 

When Dr. Dev (Fictional Name) joined as Senior Resident in the Department of Surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi, he learned that the consultant of the Unit had a unique protocol.

Whenever someone left the unit, either passed out of AIIMS or transferred to a different unit, instead of asking the doctor to deposit back the key to the Unit’s duty room (common room), he just gets the lock of the door changed and then distributes extra keys to all the present unit doctors. So even if the old unit doctor had an extra key to the common room, it becomes useless. And this was followed regardless of the leaving doctor’s post or designation, honesty or integrity level.

Why I am remembering this or sharing this with you now? I came across an interesting news article some time ago. In the Covid-19 era, many employees were laid off and fired from their job. Jobless with no income, some had sold the username, employees ID, passwords, login details of the organization they were working previously on the dark web to make some fast and easy money. This had left these organizations vulnerable to hacking attacks causing them losses and disruption of services.

Now if these organizations had put in a protocol, similar to that of the AIIMS surgery department’s consultant, that as soon as someone had left their company, regardless of their post, honesty or integrity level, all login ID, username, passwords, security protocols, etc., are to be routinely changed immediately, they could have avoided the damage done to them.

Not only in the corporate world and professional life but also in your personal life make it a point to routinely change all your locks, passwords, pattern lock, username, login ID, etc., whenever someone leaves you, such as your guest, tenants, spouse, partner, boyfriend or girlfriend and avoid unnecessary problems and complications.

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incidents.)

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DISCLAIMER: This article is intended only for fun purposes. The author does not promote or recommend any behavior illustrated here or claim it to be useful. Use the information herein is at your one's own risk. Before trying to emulate or follow anything the reader is well advised to take into account ethical, moral, legal, and other considerations. The author recommends that Medical Practice should be of the highest ethical and moral level keeping in mind the interest of the patient as foremost. 

DISCLAIMER: This article is intended only for fun purposes. The author does not promote or recommend any behavior illustrated here or claim it to be useful. Use the information herein is at your one's own risk. Before trying to emulate or follow anything the reader is well advised to take into account ethical, moral, legal, and other considerations. The author recommends that Medical Education should be of the highest ethical and moral level keeping in mind the interest of the patient as foremost and according to MCI and other Board norms.