Media and general people often believe that private doctors and hospitals give cut or commission in form of money or kind if a patient is referred by any doctor or a hospital to another doctor or hospital. Some hospital gives almost 15 to 25 % of all profit earned after that patient being treated either conservatively or surgically in this superior hospital by more experienced or specialist. Not only this, but to get more and more referrals, many private hospital has kept a huge marketing team which meet every mediocre or less speciality hospitals in that area which may be many districts around that hospital or even in that state, all over India or even advertise in foreign countries so that these patients come here for treatment and enjoy medical tourism.
Ultimately, due to this, treatment becomes costly and have to bore by patients. Thus such practices are considered as an unethical…
