Sir,
Once considered a noble profession, medical profession is now losing fast its prestige. In the past, people used to hold doctors in high esteem. Today doctors not all, but, some have degraded this noble profession by indulging in malpractices. Some of them only bother about money and nothing beyond that. They consider patients as consumers and that is why respect towards doctors is first vanishing. Backdoor appointments and merit is being neglected that has deteriorated the quality among the doctors. The most unethical problem nowadays is mushroom growth of chemist shops and nursing homes. These chemist shops and nursing homes are run by the people having no requisite qualification-Most of these nursing homes are allowed qualification-Most of these nursing homes are allowed to runin residential areas. The facilities provided by these nursing homes are partial and some times can be dangerous to the lives of the patients. Local newspapers publish advertisements from doctors working in corporate hospitals outside the State and run OPD’s away from their original place of work. Why it is being done? The idea is to increase the foot-falls in these corporate hospitals, more patients mean more procedures, more revenue so more inventives.
Mal practices among medical profession is across the board. It is not limited to general physicians only but specialists and also super-specialists and also super-specialists are involved. Everybody is the loop is rewarded with an incentive. Think of a scenario why a clinical laboratory asks the name of the referring doctor? Come to the price of medicines there is a huge difference between the cost of a generic and a branded medicine manufactured by the same manufacturer. Why the doctors do not presence the generic medicines which are cheaper. Doctors receive incentives from pharma houses to prescribe a particular brand.
Yours etc…
S.N. Raina
Jammu
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