The Urologists Train Discussion

A famous senior Urologist (a surgeon specializing in the surgery of the Urinary organs) of Kota, was traveling from Delhi by train after attending a surgical conference there. A fellow urologist was also traveling in the same compartment who was going onwards to Mumbai. The Mumbai urologist was a relative newcomer and had just started his practice in Mumbai.

As the Kota urologist was very famous and had a roaring private practice, the Mumbai urologist asked him for some tips to increase his practice. Being of a very friendly nature the Kota urologist obliged and shared some insight he has gained during his long experience of establishing his thriving private practice.

Unnoticed by them, a fellow traveler who was also from Kota while appearing oblivious to their discussion was listening attentively to their conversation.

Some days later this fellow traveler met his friend who was a dentist. The traveler said to his dentist friend, ‘your Dr ­­­____ (the Kota Urologist) is extremely money minded. I was traveling in the same compartment with him on the train a few days ago. I listened to him while he was conversing with a fellow urologist. During the entire journey, their discussion was only about fooling patients and making money.’

If a doctor is buying land for his hospital at commercial rates, paying the electricity and water bills at commercial rates, paying the salaries to his staff at prevailing market rates, and paying income tax at a rate similar to any other business, then to survive he has to adopt tactics and techniques to increase the income of his hospital. In most cases, this is not being money-minded but simple survival and commercial viability.

It is not just for doctors but for any other business, discussion and acting on methods and means to increase the business’s income can be seen as being greedy or fooling the patients/clients/customers. So be very careful in discussing such things in public.

Who knows, your fellow traveler who appears to be sleeping or reading a novel or the person standing next to you at a party is listening carefully to your discussion and forming a bad impression of you and your profession or company.

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incident.)

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DISCLAIMER: This article is intended only for fun purposes. The author does not promote or recommend any behavior illustrated here or claim it to be useful. Use the information herein is at your 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 NMC and other Board norms.