Nefarious Nexus

If at all teachers are regarded as social scientists, presumably we can say that physicians are saviors. 

But, what happens when medical professionals become insincere brokers and swindlers who write painful prescriptions to loot poor patients, and at the end pocket their commission while accelerating the businesses of hospitals’ owners. Ridiculous isn’t it? 

Doctors do what they’re told by the hospital proprietors, and hospitals get lured by pharma companies and distributors. What a nefarious nexus!

Imagine a doctor who’s corrupt and openly asks for bribes in order to prescribe and promote a particular pharma company’s product. Definitely, a sincere person wouldn’t do that.

Verily, simply to be sincere is so sensible because, after all, sincerity is one of the traits of humanity that plays pivotal role in human life. Sincerity means ‘genuineness’, ‘honesty’, ‘authenticity’, and sincerity carries diverse definitions.

In one case, a clinical doctor, who held a prominent position in a hospital, used to request a pharma company twice a year for sponsorship of his foreign trips under the pretext of medical symposiums. It has become a common practice, after all. 

Even pharma companies, for the sake of maintaining good rapport or to expedite complicated process, are willing to pay bribes in diverse ways.

Now-a-days, in most countries, you’ll find naive doctors without any sincerity, clinics popping up here and there like commercial establishments and pharma companies in a spree to push their high priced products in the hospitals and markets.

It’s a business everywhere…so, you pay and get promoted! 

Without focusing more on patients’ safety, we find pharma companies that devise strategies for maximum profits from products. Surprisingly, hospitals are no longer comforting and cordial places, but have become rampantly like slaughter-houses.

Come patient, you’ll find ready butchers to peel off your health with unnecessary medical tests and surgeries at excessive charges. Ugh…you’ll find medical professionals, specialist in their fields, but without compassion and sincerity.

Let me narrate one interesting happening. A person, who was a bit overweight, complained of sudden chest pain. In a sense of urgency, he was taken to a multi-specialty clinic, with all amenities. After medical investigation and few tests, the doctor, without any hesitation bluffed, “Well, go to the reception to check admission procedure as you require angiography.”

Ah, when a doctor possesses sincerity, he doesn’t become prey to diabolic suggestions and temptations. A sincere medical practitioner is not corrupt, swindler and liar. Verily, sincerity is a conscious effort a virtuous person, which comes from the excellence of moral character.

The patient, who was accompanied by his wife and in-laws, was surprised. On a second thought, they left the full-fledged, commercial clinic and went to another known physician who manages his own small health center. 

The doctor simply discarded the notion of angiography and prescribed few medicines and instructed for balanced, diet food. 

Fortunately, the patient got rid of chest pain, and reduced few pounds and now looks hale and hearty.

On the other hand, when it comes to cardiac stents, there are countless stories of scams where patients are robbed off from their wallets by charging 300—700 percent of the price at which the hospital would have bought it. Because cardiac patients feel timid when they are told that in order to survive they need to undergo angioplasty, the surgical repair of unblocking of a blood vessel (especially a coronary artery).

The axiomatic truth is that without sincerity, either a hospital owner or medical doctor can achieve no upward progress.

Being a human being, one has to prove an unceasing sincerity, which is an element of humanity. Equally, to be humane, one has to annihilate ferocious attributes such as dishonesty, greediness, cheating, corruption, unprofessional conduct, exploitation and hypocrisy. With such frailties in human nature, we often fall into a world of blinding trouble.