Who is this Idiot Doctor? Asked me by a renowned Kuwaiti Cardiologist
once in Kuwait when I went to him to check my cardiac problem. Then he went a
little further and again asked me, “since your doctor in Goa is a Psychiatrist,
why he interfered in your sickness of Cardiology?” Then he asked me one more
question, “is this the normal medical system in Goa?”
It all happened because during one of my vacations in Goa a
few years back I went for my check-up to one doctor who happened to be a
Psychiatrist and while checking me he noticed some flaws in my heart beats for
which he prescribed some medicine. After
returning to Kuwait, I showed that prescription given to me by the Goan doctor to my regular Cardiologist in
Kuwait. Reading the prescription of my
Goan doctor he noticed his designation as Psychiatrist and got annoyed for
handling cases not pertaining to his speciality. Hence, he remarked saying “Who
is this idiot Doctor?”.
In Mapusa till recently there was one Orthopedic
doctor/surgeon practicing at one of the Private Hospitals but he was handling
any type of patients including Cancer patients and unfortunately every Cancer
patient he operated died. Yet he was not
changing his dirty habit of not sticking to his specialty.
In Salcete there was one doctor/surgeon whose speciality was
TB but again like our Mapsencar doctor, he too was handling patients suffering
from any type of sickness including Cancer and thus instead of curing the
patients he was killing them.
In Calangute constituency there are two Private Hospitals
where patients of any sickness are admitted even though there are neither
competent doctors there nor proper facilities to handle all types of sickness
of the patients but they admit in their hospitals any type of patient. Finally when they realize that they are
unable to cure the patients, they either shift those patients to GMC at the
last minute or silently allow the patients to die in their own hospitals. Even the patients they shift to GMC at the
last minute do not survive forcing the doctors to ask “Why did you not bring
the patients earlier so that appropriate medical treatment could have been provided”.
In government hospitals most of the Nurses are become Curses
and most of the Private hospitals are become money making rackets because many
of the doctors there are acting like butchers who for the sake of money butcher
their conscience and medical ethics by doing things which are not appropriate
for their noble profession. These doctors do not care for human life but care
only for money in which direction they will do anything because they are so
corrupt. In fact many of them are more
corrupt than the corrupt politicians. In
my constituency the two hospitals as indicated above are already named by the
people as “Killing Hospitals” because of this Tag patients have started to
boycott these hospitals. According to my latest information some constituents
of this Constituency are gearing up to campaign against these hospitals thru
the printed leaflets which will be distributed in the locality indicating the
flaws existing in these hospitals.
The most important tactic some of the money making doctors are
making is to instill fear into the minds of the patients and their relatives
saying “the sickness is serious and requires immediate operation” costing not
only thousands but lakhs of rupees. For
this reason before going for major operation a second opinion must be sought
because many of the current doctors are not sincere to their Oath. Many people
have lost their trust in the present day doctors.
There are some doctors in private hospitals who by referring
their patients to certain hospitals for specialized treatment when it is not
necessary, get hefty commission just as corrupt politicians do. Some of the
doctors are so corrupt that their corruption is worst than that of corrupt
politicians.
In view of above, I feel, the government must enact a
legislation to restrict the doctors to handle patients only those who come
under their specialization. Also, one
more legislation to prevent private hospitals from admitting patients whose
cases are beyond the capacity of those hospitals.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim, Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.
