hmm.... Govt. versus Private hospitals and cost. Recently I read in the Hyderabad local paper that RTI act and/or the new govt. rule demands that hospitals has to display the costs of various treatments. Many doctors said that as cases and complications differs from person to person, they cannot say the cost of operations but they can give the details of other things like room cost, general tests etc.,
In my personal experience in CARE, Banjara Hills, NIMS, Niloufer and Oncology Center, I didn't find anything wrong with the doctors or hospital authorities. In fact I find the mistake with Press. First time ever I begin to realize that we shouldn't believe what is written in the media. Earlier I used to read the dailies as if they are god's prayers. I didn't do any work before reading the news papers. Any poems that I wrote or the impressions that I got of different issues all of them are based on the media. Especially with Lakshmi Narasamma case, when Dr. Sundar spoke with Dr. Vasan, we get to know the truth. I felt very bad of what the Press has written. Why the so called intelligentsia of media didn't try to get the opinion of the concerned doctors? If we are in the shoes of doctors, what would be our reaction? I recollect the comment of one of my friends who was a medico then. I quarrelled with him that he was not in touch with me and he explained me about the life of medicos. He told me about a 12 yr old boy whose legs and hands were cut off (due to stucking up in a machine or something). On seeing my expression to his words, he exclaimed that on listening itself I was reacting so and how would he feel on seeing many cases as such daily. They feel blank and they don't feel like talking at all. They too are humans and they too have emotions but they get used to it. I also asked him if he is interested in Poetry etc., (to show my poems ofcourse :) ) He said that though he is interested, he doesn't feel like reading because if he uses that time to think or read on how a heart functions, it would be of use to him. I was really surprised then. He is also a very silent and serious person. But when I saw the doctors in NIMS and when they answer to the point and do not give us a chance to talk, I thought might be doctors are so. Coming to the case, I do not want to express my opinion on any case for sometime. It is upto the group to decide. Thank you.
