There is a huge nexus among corporate hospitals, pharma companies and doctors who engage in exploitative practices called 'target system' and 'cuts' with the motive of earning profits, claims a book by doctors, who broke their silence on rampant malpractices. In a chilling narrative, the book 'Dissenting Diagnosis' says 'packages' offered by multispecialty corporate hospitals, incorporating a range of tests under 'master checkup', not only drains an individual of his hard-earned money but the collected samples go down the 'sink' as well.
The book launched last week lays bare the rot in the medical sector as it gives first person accounts of patients, doctors and pathologists from across the country. In the book, a pathologist, who did not want to be named, explains that sink tests essentially means samples collected from patients are just thrown into the wash basin without testing as…
