Make the doctors accountable
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Though it may sound ludicrous but it is a fact that becoming sick and going to a doctor or a hospital these days has become a frightening phenomenon for the common people, because the high charges levied by them is simply beyond the means of the common public to bear with. Most of these so-called posh hospitals have facilitated doctors with arrays of degrees advertised beside their names; some degrees are beyond anybody's apprehensions. These doctors are provided with plush chambers and their names are prominently exposed to different places so that they cannot escape the eyes of the patients. One of my cousins recently went to one of such posh hospitals with chest pain. He was taken to the ICU right away and kept there all night and interestingly the duty doctor told his wife that the patient needed to be put with rings as they suspected that his heart had got blockages. However, going to another hospital for a second opinion, he was told that he didn't need anything; they also told him that it all started from the formation of gas in the stomach. As for the bill, my cousin paid Taka 17, 000 /-, for spending a night in the ICU. What a way of fleecing money from the unsuspecting patient! I wonder when our concerned authorities will correct all these malpractices and make the doctors accountable for their wrong doing!
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