Plight of Doctors - Damned if they do, Damned if they don't!
Take a look at this write-up that appeared a few days back in The Hindu, Chennai edition:
If a doctor asks you to go in for a plethora of tests, he's promptly accused of being money-minded, and further accused of asking you to undergo a battery of tests with aspersions being cast on possible "commissions" from all those tests, X-Rays, scans, etc.
If the same doctor takes a quick look at you and prescribes a couple of simple medicines after seeking answers to a couple of questions, you look askance and wonder if you've come to a "not-so-modern" doctor and whether you need to take a second opinion from a specialist.
I could actually go on and on about the sad state of affairs of doctors who are caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, but the above article that has been written by one Dr. A Aswini Kumar expresses many of my own viewpoints with adequate clarity.
Another interesting article linked to the same subject:
- Health check-ups - How healthy is it? - By Dr T Rama Prasad
Do read the article and think a dozen times before blaming the doctors in future!
Regards,
N
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