Medical expertise?
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Returning from Valore (Tamil Nadu, India), I wrote a letter three weeks back captioned "whither our medical expertise" and sent for this section, but as the letter was too long I presume that it did not get the nod for publication. I wrote because I was amazed to see the stream of patients from Bangladesh. Are we to take it for granted that our medical care is getting worse? I met Bangladeshi patients daily with wrong treatment or failed treatment they had at Dhaka or elsewhere in Bangladesh. I also went there accompanying a patient who was told by Dhaka specialists that his disease was incurable. But my patient, a boy of 26 yeas, returned with assurance that he does not suffer from what the Dhaka specialists treated him for. It is Valore Christian Medical College where I met many who suffered from varied nature of diseases, patients of neurological, renal and gastric related diseases being in large number. One patient had wrong sided brain surgery by a reputed Neurosurgeon of Dhaka and CMC righted it by another surgery. Another neuro patient and his parents, disappointed by the suggestions of Neuro Medicine department of BSMMU that the treatment would incur a huge amount of money went there and got treated. To their bewilderment, the cost was minimal. A patient was wrongly treated for TB by a renowned medicine specialist (retired) and as a result he developed pleural effusion and I saw him getting treated there, showing hope of recovery. A child was said to have his both kidneys damaged at RMCH, but CMC found both kidneys fully OK and after carrying out a number of investigations gave the required treatment. The child and its parents had a great sigh of relief and left Valore happy. The above is the tip of the iceberg. What can we do about it?
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