Sir,
This is a welcome step that cardiologists of AIIMS are going to start a movement against excessive and expensive medical investigations to get a cut on referring patients. The Society for Less Investigative Medicine (SLIM) will draw up guidelines for investigations and procedures related to cardiology and will sensitise doctors from other disciplines to draw up similar guidelines from their own fields to frame a readily available checklist for different kinds of diagnostic tests and procedures.
It has been reported that researchers in Europe and USA have concluded that General health checkups have no effect on total mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and cancer . In UK such dubious practices invite action from the General Medical Council but Medical Council of India has taken no action in this regard so far. Of late conscientious doctors have risen to the occasion to discharge their responsibility to the society and the patients so that they are not taken for a ride by greedy members of their own fraternity who want to make easy money at the cost of helpless patients.
Yours etc…
Pragya Mahajan
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