I have been visiting well known dentist based in Margao ever since commencement of practice about 20 years back.
Last 3 years I have beeb visiting regularly for crown and root canal treatment , I used to pay advance and then after the treatement got completed or crown fixed paid the balance amount. This time when I visited in the month of August for one more crown treatement, I paid Rs 2,000 out of the treatment bill of Rs 3,100. On the day of crown fitting the technicians did the colour matching and asked my approval. After I gave my nod they bluntly told me " First pay balance of Rs 1,100 and only after that we will fit the crown. I was shocked and queried " Any Goenkar has run away without paying" Lady replied " Patient paise bharna and Amka mageer bharche padta" I replied " Je paise dina te Banavliche astale patient" and I paid quietly without any arguments. Our "Goa is going the Dirty Mumbai way" I feeel now the only person who trusts Goan is the Poder who gives daily bread on credit and the flower and candle vendors outside the temples and churches. Manoj Raikar
