I ventured into writing on this platform with an article on (patients seeking guarantees) for the care or treatment by any doctor or healthcare provider. It was well taken up by the readers and this got some educative and emotional comments from our fraternity. I remain grateful for that initial encouragement for sharing my thoughts and experience with others with the only aim that we make our lives better and more protected while dealing with innumerable life and death situations in our day to day practice.

Now, sometimes I observe and feel that the trends are catching up when we doctors are getting into the trap of so-called guarantees to attract more patients and possibly more business. I do not know whether I am politically correct when I raise this issue in this forum. With due regards to all, my sincere effort would be to educate members not to get into this never-ending and…