18 February 2010

Decline on medical treatments.?

There has been a lot of recent deaths of family and friends due to the same factors which you all mentioned.
They go with pain, they are told nothing on EKG/ no Bp they send u back.. there were cases ,where the patient goes back and then they are told wait, we will send u to another hospital: we don't do it.(kerala). (my hubby's uncle passed away Feb 8)
The patient leaves to be with God. Leaving behind grieving Family ,friends and relative.With thoughts what if we had gone there,or what if i had done this.Lot of this seen .
last time ,i was visiting India,my grand auntie came visiting me(some of you met her) she had swelling on her throat and was tired. one look made me think she had cancer,it took them weeks before she could get admitted and surgery done,her son had come here to help with his sister(undergoing cancer-related issues) .I was surprised they did not push surgery ,although they told her to hurry.
She wanted to wait for her son to come back. After all that, now they have given her time!Her daughter is still fighting for her life. They both don't know each others situation.
I have had Personal experiences in North, where i put my foot down on their treatment methods ,flew back to mds and got just a cream from my local Dr.stopped all the medicines from North .Few days i was better. while i was under treatment with antibiotics which caused ulcers,painful,iodine treatment for month.There was a incident when i went with severe pain, the night duty Dr prescribed meds. My hubby ran got it. I took it and had severe side effects.. told him, he took me back next morning and the morning duty Dr,who had just come in was mad ..she asked which "idiot" gave u this. I told them their Dr, she charged out gave a dose came charging back tore the prescription!
Many incidences i can tell, i know each one of you have your own to tell. I find here too, one has to be careful.Regarding Good Dr coming here,some of us like having Indian DR for treatments,some of us run away from them.Because of their careless attitudes or bedside manners or their money minded nature .We have urgent care system where we can go and they will do x-rays, blood work, prescribe medicines thats open till about 10.Thats where we go, when your regular Drs office is closed. Emergency, if we go we land paying 100$.(With insurance) You pay before they start treatment.
Recently , an Indian Dr was arrested locally for insurance fraud for millions of dollars.Here we ask each other look up Internet sources also check with other Dr.before we take any major decisions.
Another decision of ours we put off, thanks, to 3 different Dr opinions.
Some are Good, its in their system to help.They tell us your insurance will not cover,or will give only so much before they give us a heavy bill.They tell you pros and cons.

some study to become Dr giving money with less marks (back home )one is always worried.Dr also are guessing our problems(one good example).Last time i was in for pain,swelling, the Dr I had were not Indians they told me , sorry ,don't know why- we have to go fishing, well they fished by sending me to all sorts of painful prod, poking, scanning tests and came with- maybe one kind of arthitis and said few names.. no meds,nothing: but pain swelling came down.Still when too hot or cold my fingers, toes swell up.Part of age catching up.
May God bless all of them.

4 comments:

SM said...

This is what happens (at least in INdia) when everyone wants to be a doctor. They become doctors and engineers becuase their family wants them to be - not because their heart is in it. Hope you feel better UST.

Rajeev said...

Tue! The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Amos said...

I agree with Rajeev..

Amos said...

Shocking news doing the rounds in India on fake and expired medicines being sold...