The VIP Syndrome Pressure

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A patient was admitted to ward under the consultant's care. Since the patient was quite sick, the patient's attendants were very apprehensive. They started contacting various, social and political leader, who in turn started phoning, the consultant to take better care of the patient.

After two-three such phone calls, he called the patient attendant and told them the patient is very sick and it will be better if they take the patient to a higher center for better care and referred the patient to the higher center.

 Explaining to his juniors, he said, “Once you are giving the best possible care to the patient if such phones come than that means the patient's attendants do not have faith in you. There is no point in treating a patient who does not trust you. If any complication occurs or the outcome is not up to their expectation, such patients are most likely to hold you responsible. Therefore, I think it is better to refer the patient to the higher center than have a needless headache and tension.”

(Based on true incident)

— ND
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DISCLAIMER: This article is intended only for fun purpose. The author does not promote or recommend any behavior illustrated here or claim it to be useful. Use of the information herein is at you one's own risk. Before trying to emulate or follow anything the reader is well advised to take into account ethical, moral, legal and other considerations. The author recommends that Medical Education should be of the highest ethical and moral level keeping in mind the interest of the patient as foremost and according to MCI and other Board’s norm. 

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