By Dr. Sarath Gamini De Silva I have been critical of the questionable activities of the GMOA hierarchy for quite some time. (See my article “Open Letter to Dr. Padeniya” in the Ceylon Daily News on 11.5.2017). However, I am writing now in defence of their recent action in vaccinating the parents and immediate family members of the doctors, who have been in the forefront of the battle against the pandemic. I have also said in the past that doctors are the products of this society (see “Doctors Are Products of This Society” in The Island 21.3.2017). As such, despite being members of a noble profession, it is unrealistic to expect doctors to be vastly different from others at a comparable level in a very corrupt society.