Recently, a BPO employee was admitted in Apollo hospital due to dizziness. The doctors had asked the parents of the girl, to take a series of tests. The poor parents were uneducated and also from a rural background. They had no clue, what so ever of the urban lifestyle ! They spent all their savings on their daughter and made all the tests. Five days later, when the girl’s parents enquired the doctors about her health status, they come towards them, just to say “The girl dies five days back.”
I can hear a loud ‘NONSENSE’ and I am sure all of you can’t accept that this happened in a reputed hospital like Apollo, but this is true! [Please consider this as just an alleged complaint]
The sad fact is that the issue is not yet being reported by any media, to my knowledge and I was told by my friend, that she would file a story once she gets more details from the parents. But something has to be done somewhere.
The Health of the State is getting worse by the day. The line dividing the haves and have-nots is clearly marked here too. As on one side, scientists find new ways to create life, doctors kill thousands of lives, simultaneously, probably, due to sheer ignorance.
But the above case, I am not sure, what to call, as I do not have full details.
I am just out of another hospital. My mom was admitted this time, as she was diagnosed of mild jaundice. I became over-cautious after hearing the sad case of that girl. We checked with a couple of doctors even before admitting her in the hospital. Thankfully, my aunts had previous experiences of handling jaundice patients. She actually could read the medical report and interpret facts! Any how, I didn’t stop it there. At each stage, I kept asking all sorts of questions, just to make doctors realise that patients are not mere fools to accept all that they say.
My mother had to take a scan of her liver to study the status of the problem, to help the doctor make a proper diagnosis. An amateur nurse who was studying the scan report, saw a clot in the gall bladder, and created a hullabaloo in the scanning room, calling it a big one! When we approached the doctor on this, he said that was nothing at all. I understand that nurses should be given training, but doctors can’t discuss patients so openly, and that too, with someone who doesn’t know much. Since the doctor here was a dependable one and since the patient is a well-educated one, there was no scope for anyone to fool!
I guess now, you would accept that it’s a business run on fear, a fear not in the mind of the doctor anymore, but in the mind of the patient.
Not just that.
It is a business run based on this fear factor.
I can hear a loud ‘NONSENSE’ and I am sure all of you can’t accept that this happened in a reputed hospital like Apollo, but this is true! [Please consider this as just an alleged complaint]
The sad fact is that the issue is not yet being reported by any media, to my knowledge and I was told by my friend, that she would file a story once she gets more details from the parents. But something has to be done somewhere.
The Health of the State is getting worse by the day. The line dividing the haves and have-nots is clearly marked here too. As on one side, scientists find new ways to create life, doctors kill thousands of lives, simultaneously, probably, due to sheer ignorance.
But the above case, I am not sure, what to call, as I do not have full details.
I am just out of another hospital. My mom was admitted this time, as she was diagnosed of mild jaundice. I became over-cautious after hearing the sad case of that girl. We checked with a couple of doctors even before admitting her in the hospital. Thankfully, my aunts had previous experiences of handling jaundice patients. She actually could read the medical report and interpret facts! Any how, I didn’t stop it there. At each stage, I kept asking all sorts of questions, just to make doctors realise that patients are not mere fools to accept all that they say.
My mother had to take a scan of her liver to study the status of the problem, to help the doctor make a proper diagnosis. An amateur nurse who was studying the scan report, saw a clot in the gall bladder, and created a hullabaloo in the scanning room, calling it a big one! When we approached the doctor on this, he said that was nothing at all. I understand that nurses should be given training, but doctors can’t discuss patients so openly, and that too, with someone who doesn’t know much. Since the doctor here was a dependable one and since the patient is a well-educated one, there was no scope for anyone to fool!
I guess now, you would accept that it’s a business run on fear, a fear not in the mind of the doctor anymore, but in the mind of the patient.
Not just that.
It is a business run based on this fear factor.
2 comments:
Good post. South India is much better than North India when it comes to running health affairs. Don't say this in Andhra publicly the doctors will be on strike and the common public will be hit.
Yeah and in btw, do you remember that you promised to speak to your Accenture doc and let me know about the North Indian health picture?
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