In this era of estranged doctor-patient and doctor-doctor relationship, I would like to highlight and coin a new term once patient requires antibiotic. One of my patients came to casualty with fever, the CMO gave an injectable antibiotic without asking me, don't know why even now. The patient developed anaphylaxis seeing which the CMO informed me. When I saw the patient he developed whole body rash, shifted to ICU. He was given all the possible antiallergic regime. But suddenly the relatives developed paranoid features and ransacked ICU.
They didn't allow anyone to treat a patient, called visual media and made the poor patient suffer. They demand on the spot discharge gone to a hospital far away. Reached there somehow in a very bad shape, but recovered in few days. But the dirtiest part was they came back to me and accused me of negligence. How? One thing I was never aware that…
