A common problem faced by many doctors is that people ask them to prescribe some medicine or other in the market place, social gatherings, religious gathering, etc. This disturbs the doctor’s personal work and there is also the danger of inadequate or wrong prescription as a proper evaluation, clinical history and examination are not possible in a setting out of hospital or clinic.
For the safety and wellbeing of the patient and doctors themselves, many doctors generally politely decline to write or suggest some medicine without proper consultation.
If the doctor refuses, he is vilified as uncooperative, anti-social, misanthropist, insensitive to the suffering of others or greedy for getting consultation fees.
When faced with such a situation, Dr. Richard Daswani (Fictional Name), a famous surgeon of the city, responded in a unique manner. But this is not possible for most of us as not many among us can pull this off.
When Dr. Richard was buying some grocery item from a shop in the main market, the shopkeeper started saying, ‘Sir, I lots of stomach related problems. I get bloating sensation on eating food. There is a lot of ‘gas’ and ‘acid’ formation’.
Dr. Richard understood what the shopkeeper was leading at, yet feigning ignorance he asked, ‘Why are telling me your medical problem?’
The surprised shopkeeper replied, ‘Why sir, you are a doctor in the medical college. I saw you working there when I went to visit my relative admitted there last week. Please just write me some capsule and syrup for my stomach problem.’
Dr. Richard replied, ‘You have mistaken me with my brother. He is a doctor in the medical college. I am just a junior government servant.’
The surprised shopkeeper countered, ‘Why sir, you must be joking? I never forget a face. You are looking exactly the same as I had seen you in the hospital’.
Dr. Richard answered, ‘Of course my doctor brother looks just like me. After all, he is my twin brother!’
The shopkeeper became speechless after that.
The danger of advising medicines without proper consultation is illustrated in 'Just Some Tonic Please'
(Based on an allegedly 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. 
🤣nice sir...
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