Anaesthetist of a surgical & maternity nursing home in Bangalore has displayed his designation as MD consulting physician under his name board, Practising medicine. A patient who is also Dentist was sick with fever. As Ophthalmologist relocated to Bengaluru after superannuation, I found a Doctor through internet search & phoned up to one Dr.Shashidhar of Geetha diagnostic centre, Bangalore-560098 said to be a physician for consulting. I saw his name board with designation MD Consulting Physician. Pathologist also got introduced to him.
He hospitalised the patient & treated for a few days. Dengue fever was confirmed & next day, me & my doctor at Bangalore were called in & revealed that the patient had to be shifted to higher centre as he is only consulting Anaesthetist. We requested him that a physician be called in & treated further. He however forced us out. We had to bear the brunt of…