Today, wherever something goes wrong in a private hospital, the doctors get blamed. He is called negligent and is often beaten up. There is a lot of unnecessary violence and doctors get a lot of bad press. This is why the image of the medical profession suffers. The aggrieved family approaches a reporter with an emotionally charged story.
This if often biased, incomplete and factually wrong. The reporter is happy to carry it, because any story which features negligent doctors gets a lot of attention, and they want to be the first to "break the story" if it bleeds, it leads. Sadly, medical accuracy becomes the first casualty of this slip shod approach. A good reporter will try to contact the concerned doctor to get his side of the story. However, doctors are scared of the press, and are usually advised by their lawyer to clam up, as a result of which they are very reluctant to talk to…
