I feel really sorry for my colleagues managing the ICU units across the country. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If the patient comes out alive you are a God. Whatever the price it was worth the lives saved. If The patient dies with a huge financial deficit, you are a scheming corrupt medical doctor whose only interest was to make money. Even if you are actually paid a fixed salary amounting to 5% of the total bill.
If you come out alive. Hopefully, the incident doesn't scare you to change your behaviour towards these consumers (no longer do they deserve the word patient) forever. And downward spirals the doctor-patient relationship. So what if discharged against medical advise DAMA is not an option for a critical patient on a ventilator. Death during Shifting to a mobile ventilator of an Ambulance or en-route to next hospital is very likely. But what if the patient has no…
