Super Speciality Hospitals - Are they misleading the Doctors they hire?

Hey ppl,

How are you ? Today i am here to share my latest  doctor visit experience here in Bangalore.

Bangalore is a great city and very famous for its weather. Bangalore weather is ways awesome but its unpredictable and its been too cold these days. I usually use my bike to go to office. Riding the bike in the cold, sudden change in the weather and  I got sick.  I was feeling uncomfortable last thursday (21 Jan 2011) and I knew that i am going to get Fever. As expected i got fever on Thursday night. My health was not bad on friday morning so that i can skip my work, but it started becoming worst after when i was working at my office. So decided to take 'Off' and visit the doctor.

I told my manager about my health and directly headed to hospital (One of the Famous). I met this doctor who was in mid age(I guess some 10 years exp),  relaxing at his office (no patients). When I entered his office,

Me - Hi Doctor, I am Vijendra. How are you?
Dr. - Hi Vijendra. Whats your problem? (What else can you expect from a doctor).
Me- Hey i am sick, I am not feeling so good.

The conversation went on… He asked me some unnecessary questions like, do you live with friends? Do you work? Do you have insurance? etc. I told him, I stay with my parent, work in bangalore and I am insured. When i was describing my symptoms, i told him that "i am having throat pain". He took a look at it and he said

Dr. - Hey Vijendra you are having some serious problem. You may need to get admitted to hospital immediately. 
Me - What?? What happened to me? 
Dr. - You are having some infection in your throat which may lead to Pneumonia (I don't know how they are related)
Me - Really? But i am having this pain from morning. 
Dr. - See you have to trust me, call your mom or dad, tell them to come here. You join now.

I tell you guys it was like someone forcing you to go to movie. After a minute pause, i answered him

Me - Doctor, do you have any Targets? I mean financially ?
Dr. - What? Enu heltha idira? (What are you taking?)
Me - Ade sir, immediate agi admit agu antha idiralla adakke kelide.. (You asked me to admin immediately, so i am guessing something is wrong)

The fight went on and on. Finally I left hospital with some dugs which the doctor prescribed me to take for a day (He was expecting me to get admitted next day). I didn't take the medication he prescribed, instead i took "Crosin" and I felt really good by morning.

This happened with me, I am fine since i did some google after i am back home and found nothing wrong with me. What about the uneducated people who come to these hospitals, these people will little rob them.

I am still thing about the solution for it, what we can do to stop all this crap, is these some awareness we can bring among the general public?

Feel free to comment.

Yours,
Vijendra

My place, My Bangalore - Namma Bengaluru

Hi everyone, Very Happy New Year!!!


Its been a while i was thinking to write this post about my place i.e. Bengaluru (Bendakaaluru--> Bangalore--->Bengaluru). Its been two months since I am back to India, i did observe a allot of changes around here. I will try to put my opinions here [Its completely personal]. 


As you already guessed whats my first topic, Traffic, yup it is. But this time i am feeling really good about the changes happened in traffic system here. Lots of improvements happened and more required too.But much better compare to couple of years. Firstly, traffic monitoring through cameras. It makes police life so easier, i use to feel pity on these police constables who can't catch any violated vehicles on the road but still need to stand in hot sun or rain or chilled weather. Now, you violate rule you will get your fine directly to registered address by mail. If you don't respond to it, you get warning letter followed by arrest warrant.  


However I am not saying there is no cops on the road, even now they catch you if make any moving violation but no more paper receipts or bribe,  they are advanced in technology, its Blackberry. They will ask your vehicle number, you name, your DL number. thats it, they will print the receipt from the wireless printer which they have with them. It gets print instructions from the blackberry in which the police officer enter the fine details or violation info. Which is recoded against your DL number for future reference.

Lets park traffic for a while and talk about other things, like malls, restaurants . In two years there are around 5 new malls opened here. Each one is complete different from other. New restaurants like taco bell, Shiok, Papa John's … Yummy yummy food.Still I didn't get time to visit any of these malls but I had once in Taco Bell. 


Rental Cars are now available in Bangalore, if we are planning for any long trips why to waste miles in your won car, get a rental cars.. I heard about it, I don't have much info about it. Planning some trip this Jan, let me use this service.


Thats all for now, i really don;t want to bore you people… 


Take care.


Fell free to comment. Your comments all matter for me to write a new post.




-Vijendra