Dear Patron, First of all, I, Dr. Amol Javdekar would like to sincerely thank you for the trust you have shown in me as pathologist and for appreciating services provided to you. To strengthen this bond of relationship between you and me, good communication is essential and  hence I write these articles for you with the purpose of clearing  certain misconceptions about pathology lab testing, financial aspects of medical services, challenges facing medical fraternity, doctor-patient relationship.

I want to make it very clear that pathology and the entire field of medicine is horribly and painfully complex and it would be next to impossible to educate non-medicos about the intricacies and finer nuances of diagnosis and treatment of any disease in a span of few words. However, even if the reader gets an overview of this challenging field of medicine and understand why certain things need…