A few days ago, somebody raised a question on quality of medical education in India and I had commented that the liking and demand of public in India should be honored instead of recommendations of our reverend teachers. Recently I happened to see the discharge ticket of a patient treated by a very renowned doctor of Patna. The diagnosis written on discharge ticket is 'HTN, Diabetes Type II, massive B/L Pleural Effusion with collapse-consolidation of lungs'.
The last part of the diagnosis is not a diagnosis; it is the manifestation of some disease which the doctor did not like to mention. Lay people do not like to read 'Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)' as the diagnosis; they are happy to know that there was water in lungs, they don't to hear that there was a problem with the heart. What do you think about such diagnosis by doctors?
