Pravin Pol, Drishti Kothari Shobha Jagiasi Agree , capping will encourage corruption enormously. Legal formalties will make patients unnecessarily pay excess, as no doctor would take responsibility for presumption based only upon clinical exam: something one cannot prove at a later date in the court. Secondly, there will be no difference between qualifications, good and bad doctors will be difficult to identify. Patients then will also lose their claim / right to dmand treatment from a specific doc/ specialist, as everyone will be equal and doctors will least involve themselves in difficult cases which consume time. The right to refuse cases still remains with the doctor, so this law may enable misuse to promote denial of complicated/ time consuming cases, serious cases, multisystem cases etc where even the medical and legal risk will be high. Then again, if a patient has diabetes, blood pressure, heart disease, infection, kidney failure, and is admitted for unknown cause of unconsciousness, one will legally have to charge for each diagnosis every time one visits, this will increase current visiting of 2k to above 10 k per visit... And there are many such cases in ICUs. Polytrauma treatment will be beyond even the richest Indians, there are multiple surgeries required! If One gets 300 Rs per case whether he/ she spends 10 min or an hour with patient, why will every doc bother to waste time with difficult cases? This will seed new corruption crop. This bill, if passed, will be a death-gong for any good future for Indian Medicine.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:44:27 +0000
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