When it comes to the hospital, people become emotionally and doctors and nurses gets a chance to loot them. Yes thats what i said! Loot them! Don't get emotional and think practically about what I am going to say. When my grandfather was in the hospital, I always used to be there, I used to see the medical of the hospital giving bills twice, thrice a day. And the amount on every bill used to exceed beyond Rs.300. One day on seeing the bill, one of my aunt said, two businesses in this world are very profitable-one is hotel business and second is hospital. I started thinking. Its true that in both the places, hotel or hospital, whatever the amount might be, we just pay it without thinking.
When we left the hospital, there came in front of us a huge bill of about Rs. 70,000 for just 15 days and Rs. 17,000 of medication. No operations had taken place. My grandfather just laid on the bed for whole 15 days. Seeing the bill we were really surprised. Its not that we didn't had money to pay, we could have paid more than that for the life of my grandfather but we didn't wanted to get looted. So we asked for the break-up of the bill. My dad, my uncle wanted to know for what all we have been charged. The room called the special room with just an additional bed and no toilet and wash-basin in the room cost Rs. 1500 everyday. They had done many tests. (God knows when. They had hardly taken his blood) We asked for the reports of all the tests and found out that they had doubled the money. They said it was by-mistake and decreased the amount. There were many other things where we could see that they had charged much like the ICU room, doctor's visiting charges extra. But could not say anything about them. I felt that instead of giving the money to the doctor who visited once in the whole day, give them to the nurses and other staff because they had really worked hard and done much more than their job throughout 15 days. But they got very little share. When we bought the medicines from a medical outside the hospital, we came to know that the hospital had charged more than the actual price in medicines too.
From all these experiences, i learnt a lot. I learnt that doctors practice for money and not to provide service. Then I realized that its a circle. When the fees of medical colleges are Rs. 4,00,000, why the doctor would not try to retrieve his fees. As he tries to do so, he earns lot and ultimately doctors children land up becoming doctors! This may not be the case in each hospital but it can be in coming future. So be aware and think practically while paying hospital bills!
When we left the hospital, there came in front of us a huge bill of about Rs. 70,000 for just 15 days and Rs. 17,000 of medication. No operations had taken place. My grandfather just laid on the bed for whole 15 days. Seeing the bill we were really surprised. Its not that we didn't had money to pay, we could have paid more than that for the life of my grandfather but we didn't wanted to get looted. So we asked for the break-up of the bill. My dad, my uncle wanted to know for what all we have been charged. The room called the special room with just an additional bed and no toilet and wash-basin in the room cost Rs. 1500 everyday. They had done many tests. (God knows when. They had hardly taken his blood) We asked for the reports of all the tests and found out that they had doubled the money. They said it was by-mistake and decreased the amount. There were many other things where we could see that they had charged much like the ICU room, doctor's visiting charges extra. But could not say anything about them. I felt that instead of giving the money to the doctor who visited once in the whole day, give them to the nurses and other staff because they had really worked hard and done much more than their job throughout 15 days. But they got very little share. When we bought the medicines from a medical outside the hospital, we came to know that the hospital had charged more than the actual price in medicines too.
From all these experiences, i learnt a lot. I learnt that doctors practice for money and not to provide service. Then I realized that its a circle. When the fees of medical colleges are Rs. 4,00,000, why the doctor would not try to retrieve his fees. As he tries to do so, he earns lot and ultimately doctors children land up becoming doctors! This may not be the case in each hospital but it can be in coming future. So be aware and think practically while paying hospital bills!
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