A strange stage has arrived in medical profession that you find patients window shopping like any other commodity in vast and open market. I have seen competing corporates or nursing homes trying to influence patient through marketing people and offering reduced prices. Where are we heading in this noble profession? Till first corporate hospital in Chennai came up things were simple and dignified. Who can be blamed?
Highly qualified professionals are treated shabbily in our political system. At the same time the lure of working in air-conditioned, clean hospitals with hefty salaries has driven away even some conscientious doctors to join the mad race. Corporate Hospitals are getting cheap land on lease with the promise of treating those who can not afford even two meals in a day. No one cares even if they are fined by Courts! When hospitals are charging high prices the patients ask for…
