Jul
24
2 days before my hubby’s shoulder was paining. He has minor shoulder pain from the morning and when he did push-ups during his exercise, it increased and he couldn’t move his left hand. We went to a famous hospital near by. Actually we wanted to go to the gastroenterologist as my husband has disorders of the gastrointestinal tract and we believed that the pain is because of that only. But while the time we reached the hospital he was not available. So someone referred us to the chief medical consultant. We felt very comfortable that the doctor is a keralite and his first and last name contain names of saints. by the time we reached the consultation room, his assistant told doctor had gone for rounds and would come within 20-30 minutes.
We started to wait. 9.30, 10.00, 10.30 time went on. Then the assistant told doctor had gone to a meeting and coming directly from there. At last he came. My husband had this same problem before and so we went with recent ECG and prescription lists from other doctor. He was not even ready to hear anything. He told us to tell about that particular day’s problem. We told that. Then he wrote for 5 types blood test (including thyroid and cholesterol), urine test, ECG, X-ray and lungs tests. We did all those things and they told us to come in the afternoon to collect the reports. We didn’t get any medicines. Evening we went and collected all the reports and gone to the doctor again. He checked all papers and told everything normal, you can go. I lost my temper. Still I asked him politely-”Sir, both of us took leave today only because his shoulder is paining and still now we didn�t get any medicine. He can’t move his left hand now also”. Suddenly he took prescription pad and gave such a lengthy list. Some medicines for 15 days, some for 30 days and 1 tablet for 3 months. If everything seems normal, why did he prescribe all those medicine? He wrote medicines of a particular company and told us to buy that only. Out of 7, 6 types of medicines we got from the pharmacy. For one medicine we went to minimum 5 medical shops. Pharmacists told they would give us same medicine from another companies. Yesterday my hubby went with some other reports to the doctor. That time he was not there in the hospital where we went previously and was working in another hospital. He went there, met the doctor and got the same medicine from that pharmacy. I told my husband “You can do any exercise; but no push -ups. Today�s push -up cost us nearly 4000″
Yes, that doctor is loyal to the hospital where he works and to the medicine company who gives him costly rewards. But to the patients?????
