Corporate Hospitals
They are in the news every day. These
hospitals don't exist to treat you but to profit from your misery. I have been
fleeced twice.
Doctors and departments are set
targets that are reviewed every 15 days. As Dr Arun Gadre points out, even sham
surgeries are performed; the skin is opened and stitched up. Dead patients are
kept in ventilators to inflate bills.
As per a Govt investigation your
bills anyway don't reflect services rendered as medicines and supplies not prescribed are also included. The medicine shop within the
premises has medicines with inflated prices marked on them. These are not
exceptions but the norm.
The sufferings
of patients exceed all limits. A doctor friend of mine who works in the ICU
says it is wrong to think patients in coma do not suffer. The constant flow of
tears from their eyes is an indication of extreme pain within that is not
expressed due to immobility.
It is common for
healthcare workers to be on antidepressants as they are forced to work against
their conscience. I would appeal to them to stop working in such hell holes.
The world would
be much better without hospitals that are traditionally notorious for deaths
due to medical errors and hospital acquired infections. It is sad that even
small nursing homes are no longer honest and have adopted all the practices as
they have allowed themselves to be sucked into the corruption cycle.
Commissions on
referrals are today demanded as a right and those who resist are threatened.
Medical associations actively support and encourage the corruption for obvious
reasons and the system ironically depends on them to deliver judgments in
consumer cases. Affected people are waiting for an earthquake that will take
down the entire system.
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