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'Apollo's Dr Reddy was not convincing in the least'
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 17:37:13EST +0400 Dr Reddy tries to side-step the issue of the TT player Chandrashekar. If I am not mistaken, complications arose in his case after a knee surgery and apparently Apollo Hospital had to pay him compensation. If Apollo Hospital wants a good press, they must be transparent with their treatment data. But to be fair to the hospital, it is a fact that they have good infrastructure and must be providing succour at a price. No human being can bargain when he/she is sick. That is one of the reasons why such hospitals make huge profits. At least in the case of Apollo Hospital, in all probability, most of this money is ploughed back into the hospital. Dr M S Venkateshan
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 09:40:55EST -0400 I have begun to dislike Dr Pratap Reddy and the Apollo Hospital even more. These guys make mistakes and then try to brush off their guilt with a raging anger. I have never heard of a case where someone has been declared to be good health by a hospital and him dying of severe leukemia barely 100 days later. Only god knows how they treat the ordinary public. Doctors being trained in the US or UK doesn't help unless the doctors have a will to do their job with honesty. Sohan R Ranjan
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 15:20:00EST +0200 While I agree that the standards of treatment in the Apollo Hospitals are very good, I too believe that they are rather mercenary. I had to go once a year to the Apollo Diagnostics Centre at G N Chetty Road, Chennai, and each time it was a struggle to come back without any major medical overhaul! The doctors here behave almost like car mechanics who find each and every part of the vehicle defective and try to change all the parts. Only, in the case of a car mechanic, he is dealing with a car and in the case of a doctor, he is dealing with human lives. For instance, I use glasses and am quite comfortable with them. The opthalmologist who did the tests also agreed that the current set of glasses were fine. But then she was also really keen that I either go for a correction surgery, or go in for contact lenses. She even offered me a set of contact lenses free for a week to help me decide to change, even though I was not interested. The attitude was more like that of a persistent marketing professional rather than that of a doctor, who I feel, should give us the choices and not make the decisions for us. Then there was this young lady doctor at the dental department. In spite of repeated requests not to poke around inside my mouth, she poked around and off came the filling from my upper molars. From then on, she really psyched me saying that I have acute gingivitis and am on the way to dental cancer! I escaped with a lot of pain, and got my filling done elsewhere. I found that the moment they come to know that our company covers us with health insurance, they go all out to rip us. Totally healthy persons are afraid to go to this hospital for their check-ups for fear of being told the worst. However, the hospital is indeed very plush -- spic and span, air-conditioned, with plenty of magazines and reading material for waiting patients to keep themselves occupied with. Besides, I also have had friends and relatives who have been treated and operated upon there and are very satisfied. Like they say, there are always two sides to a story. Rana Sinha Ray
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 15:09:26EST This was one of the worst interviews I have read on rediff.com. The interviewer didn't seem to have done her home work. Why don't you collect questions from your readers, compile the important ones and then pose them to a person? This is the model used by sites like Slashdot.org and it features some of the best interviews in the technical field. Swapan Sarkar
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 21:24:54EST +0530 The doctor was not convincing in the least. He gave the impression of being aggressive to hide his/his hospital's errors. Mohan Galvankar
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 11:32:06EST -0400 "It was the press who blew up that case too. The newspapers showed him (Chandrashekhar) paralysed when the fellow was betting on the racecourse." I am outraged by this statement made by Dr Reddy. Instead of being apologetic for ruining a man's career and his life, he casts aspersions on Chandrasekar's morality with a reference to betting on the race course. Srikanth Ramamurthy
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 11:16:06EST -0400 Dr Pratap deserves to be lauded for all the efforts he has taken to set up the hospital and administer medical treatment for the citizens of India. I totally agree with him when he says that the politicians and the press are making mountains out of molehills. The charge that the hospital charges too much money is completely baseless. Medical treatment in any country other than India is extremely expensive and I am sure that the same treatments in India are delivered at hugely subsidised rates. In USA, a room in a hospital costs $1000 per day! Doctors are highly educated people doing a very worthy deed for the people of our country (India) and the hospitals would do well if they paid them handsomely. One reason why doctors do not leave India for abroad in search of good money (unlike software professionals like me) is because it is difficult to gain admission and work visas internationally for that profession; it is not because they are not good. Why doesn't the press start praising hospitals and doctors for saving people's lives instead of blaming and criticising them? The press too gives publicity only to important people while at the same time it is criticising Apollo Hospital for not treating the poor and giving important or rich people preference. Reporting should be unbiased, shouldn't it? Anand Parasuram
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Thu, 24 Aug 2000, 11:07:45EST -0000 Dr Pratap Reddy should be thanked and congratulated for the lucid manner in which he has explained the sequence of treatment given to Mr Kumaramangalam. I feel the press and the politicians have been grossly unfair to the Apollo Hospitals. If what Dr Reddy says about Star TV is correct, then it is a clear example of the media being biased. I do not think newspapers cared to verify the details of the case for themselves from Apollo's authorities. The media seems to have blindly followed in the footsteps of politicians who were the first to criticise Apollo Hospital. Surely, the media should have its own mind! I honestly feel that the media has been grossly unfair to the hospital in question. Let the media concentrate on government hospitals and try to improve their efficiency by constructive and sensible criticisms. We all know the state of our government hospitals. Kudos to Dr Reddy for putting all the facts before us and it is hoped that the media gives him due respect by placing the facts before the public. K N Rajan
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