A patient was brought to the casualty wing of a big corporate hospital with alarming haematological reports signed by a M.D. in Pathology and also a Bio-Chemist having M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree. The clinician refused to act on the reports on the ground that he trusted only the reports of tests done in his hospital.
Though the clinician ordered some tests on telephone , it was not conducted by the hospital on emergency basis, which he was working with. The tests to confirm the reports , already being carried by the patient , would have taken barely five minutes. The patient later died due to the delay in administering the first aid based on the pathological reports he was carrying. Do you think that the clinician was right in being so adamant?
