From: arkesh@informix.com (Arkesh Tripathi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Health Care Costs/Cares
Date: 16 Oct 92 17:47:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
Originator: arkesh@tcninfo

Dear Netters

I would like to point out few things about medical care and
the way they operate.

I am in U.S . for more then > 4 Years with my family.
I moved a lot from seattle,WA to Edison,NJ to Detroit,MI 
and now to Santa Clara,CA. 

I interacted with lots of doctors/pediatricians/other medical 
professionals. Not only because of love and affection to india 
but even to help our own people, always consulted Indian Doctors.
Only the doctor in seattle,WA was good and upto a standard but 
rest all places they were not even able to detect a simple problems. 

We visited India and my 2 year old son (1 year when we visited india),
got scabies/skin allergy. We went through hell and consulted over
3 pediatricians, 2 skin spec., Lab Tests and list goes on. Only one
American Doctor was finally able to detect it. Treatment given by 
our own medical doctors was completly wrong and my child suffered
a lot. The height if all these is I moved from NJ to MI and now to CA,
and wanted to forward the insurance claim to Insu Co.. All the Indian
doctors did not co-operated at all in this matter, they charged $5
to get my son's medical history and after that to sign the claim forms
they took more then 2 months. Now they demanded to me to send a 
pre-post envelope ($.29 cent stamped) to return my claim forms. Well,
it costed me over $1500 for all this and still they want is $.29 cent
stamped envelopes. 

In fact the letter given to me and to one of the indian doctor's clearly 
says that it was a wrong detection as well as wrong medication - issued
by American Doctor-Skin Specialist. Many of our own Indians advised us 
to sue this doctor's. (But, I don't want to do this). What is the advise
of this group? Should I or Shouldn't I ? I don't want to genaralise to
all other indian doctor's and also may be the indian community be affected.
What I would like from you netters is any of you had similar experinces
with indian medicos? Shouldn't we expect from our own medical profs. to
be able to detect this kind of problems which are more in India. 

This may affect us all because most of us visits India Once every two/
three/five or ten years. Even after taking thousands of precautions
one can get this kind of skin problems - May be in a Hotel Bed or in
Taxi Cab or in Bombay Sub-burb Trains etc.

Disclaimer; Views are of my own and has nothing to do with my job and/or
            organization I work.

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