Cuts and kickbacks for doctors
It's a fact of life that kickbacks , cuts and commissions
have become an integral part of the healthcare system in India. In fact, this
is one of the reasons why healthcare has become so sick. However, you disguise
them – in the form of referral fees ( the euphemism which corporate hospitals
use when they pay family physicians to send patients their way); or consultancy
fees ( the dignified term which pharmaceutical companies use to incentivize doctors
to prescribe their brands), commissions are ubiquitous have become an accepted
norm in the medical profession.
A lot of this was started by pharmaceutical companies , who provide
doctors with freebies in order to influence them to prescribe their drugs.
Doctors have become so used to getting so much stuff for free from
pharmaceutical companies - ranging all the way from trips to go overseas to
cars and even apartments , that most of them take these gifts as their right.
They feel they are entitled to them , and do not even question the morality of
their behavior.
While all doctors know in their heart of hearts that it's
unethical to take these kickbacks it's extremely easy for them to justify what
they do !
All doctors , including the leading lights of
the medical profession do it, so why shouldn't I ?
I can't afford to take a holier than thou
attitude – how will I be able to afford to pay the capitation fee to send my
children to medical college ?
Since everyone else in society is doing it ,
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