Hospital in Texas
Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Texas Children's Hospital. I just cannot refrain from sharing my experience with the readers of my favourite daily. This is not meant for those who have had such an experience.
After entering the hospital, it seemed to me we have entered into a children's theme park. The lady at the reception, took only a few minutes to check with the documents and handed over an electronic signalling device and asked us to wait in the lobby. Meanwhile the twin sons of my host friend began playing in the theme park. After a while, a middle aged gentleman and a lady entered into the lobby with a cart full of toys for free distribution among those children who have come for treatment, one each. Just as the two kids of my friend were choosing their toys from the lot, the electronic device began blinking.
I followed my friend along with his two kids through the lobby into a hall way and we were received there by the waiting nurse. She asked us to follow her into the examination room, after conducting the necessary examinations, she then took us into the doctor's examination room.
The doctor was not there and we kept waiting, after a while the doctor came in. This is for the first time in my 50+ years I have come across an American doctor. I was pretty much surprised by the way he greeted his little patients of 6 years, as if he was their friend.
While merry making with the kids he finished his job, I was absolutely dumbfounded. If this is what a doctor is then I am sorry to say that the doctors we across back in Dhaka are nothing better than a butcher.
For a while I went back in time, when renowned Professor B Chowdhury used to be a doctor. My late father used to take us to his chamber in Maghbazar when we were little kids in the mid 60's for necessary treatments. It seemed to me that we have gone back instead of going forward. Since then many fanciful hospitals have come up but look at the treatment patients get at these hospitals not to speak of the government run facilities. While the rest of the world is moving forwards our beloved country Bangladesh is going backwards.
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