My Experience with the Indian Medical System
By: Sanjiv Shirodkar
Tags: Indian, Medical Ethics, Patient Experience, Indian Medical Services, Corruption

My Experience with the Indian Medical System

My experience not once but many times over says that unless and until the primary doctor is a close family friend, or a family member, you will be taken for a ride in India.

My heart goes out to the nurses, ward boys and support staff who do not have an option but to work hard with very less salaries.

About doctors, l think 10% of them really live up to the oath they take while getting into their profession. All the others are just in the Business of Medicine. Most of the times manipulating with relatives emotions to increase the medical bills. The moment a patient is dragged into the ICU the game begins. Reminds me of 10 blind men and the elephant story. The intensivist, the cardiologist, the nephrologist, the physician, the chest specialist, the endocrinologist, each visiting your patient and trying to make their respective pitches as to how they are planning to manage their 'organ'.

Hello... I gave you an entire human being with emotions, body, blood and brains. Who amongst you is looking after and caring for that whole person.

Plethora of consent forms to signed with each small procedure. ICU nurses sending unlimited medicines and supplies ordered to the Pharmacy and basket full of medicines pumped into the patient to keep him or her 'Alive'.

Yes, we Indians prefer to stay away from doctors because you doctors have made our diseases your business. We look up to you for health and all you see in us is a chronic patient who coming to you walking on two feet and you make him crawl on all four.

The above narrations are based on facts. Indian medical system is hostage to politics, medical colleges, and so called doctors that hold degrees and a smart phone with Google Chrome installed in to search for the stuff every now and then.

Indian Multi-speciality hospitals are nothing but glorified and exhorbitantly costly death services because that is the only way a patient can die in the absence of laws supporting euthanasia. Left to the doctor's it's a slow and painful death. Sorry to say but the truth is very painful 🙏

And Yeaahh.. do you have cashless mediclaim? This question will be asked the moment you enter any big hospital. Because if you do then it is easy to fleece you. Because till such time as you spending limit of your mediclaim is exhausted, you won’t complain. But to your dismay a typical limit of 5–10 lakhs can get exhausted in just a week’s time, after which you wake to the not so pleasent surprise that that mediclaim coverage was way too less.

By the time you end up selling your priced possessions to keep pace with the Hospital and pharmacy bills. The misery continues and if you are fortunate your patient will either die quickly or get completely cured. But if you are unlucky like the most, your patient will be left in a not so healthy condition needing frequent hospital visits for a long long time.

I am an Indian living inside India and know how the doctor community is ripping off the society. Doctors should introspect and who ever wants to just make money should just find an alternate profession.

We will be better off with less cardiolists but more doctors who have a caring heart. 🙏