The Greedy Doctor – 2

Please Note: Although not essential, but it may be better if you read first the earlier post, ‘The Greedy Doctor’ at https://agnipathdoctors.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-greedy-doctor.html before reading this post.

In the ‘The Greedy Doctor’ it was meant that greed can serve as a positive motivator which ultimately benefits both the patient and the doctor. A doctor or any person, because of his/her greed should not do anything that is illegal, immoral, unethical or harmful or dangerous to self or others.

One of my senior colleagues gave an example of one of his colleague. The doctor in question was highly motivated by the urge to earn money.

Once, a very wealthy person in the city fell ill and his condition became quite critical. The team of treating doctors advised him to be shifted to higher center at Jaipur (the capital city) in the night itself. As his condition was very sick, the doctors advised him to be shifted in an ambulance accompanied by a doctor to take care of him on the way.

It was monsoon season with heavy rains and storm lashing the state with areas of waterlogging on the roads with overflowing rivers in between. When the relatives of the patient contacted some doctors, all of them refused to go in such dangerous weather condition in the night time. When they contacted the money-motivated doctor he agreed to accompany the patient in exchange for a hefty fee.

The patient with his attendants and the doctor started the journey in the turbulent weather condition in an ambulance. They reached Jaipur late in the night and doctor handed over the patient safely to the doctors at the higher center and in the dead of the night, in the stormy weather condition started the return journey.

The exhaustion of the ambulance driver, the time of the night, the limited visibility, the waterlogged roads, all took its toll and the ambulance met with a serious accident and the doctor expired on the spot.

 (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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