Today I had a big surprise of my practice. My qualification is MBBS, and I have completed only 5 months of practice. The area where I practice is surrounded by excess of "specialists". My patients are also educated to differentiate between who is a specialist doctor, and who is a ordinary doctor. Here is the story: Last Monday, a woman around 40 came to see me for recurrent non-gynac abdominal pain that she was experiencing occasionally since the last 6-8 months. I treated her with my regular GI prescription.
After 2 days, she brought her 10 year old child with complaint of recurrent headache. A paediatrician had previously diagnosed it as migraine. I enquired some history like vision defect, head injury, epilepsy, medicines, postural/cough association, fever, etc. and ordered a MRI Brain. As all of us know, MRI are expensive investigations. Even though I ordered confidently, actually I…
