Manmeet Sabharwal's Blog

I am  son of a doctor an eye surgeon by profession.I always had lived my life among doctors.In my family many were doctors.Majority of my dad’s friends were doctors.I used to feel proud of that.I am very proud of my dad the way he used to help patients,help poor,used to attend camps in the most remote of the villages of Punjab.All the doctors i had seen all over my life were similar.

They used to make money also.Had good clinics or hospitals.All worked in good hospitals.Quite Prestigious and satisfying i suppose.But over the years and after i joined professional life as IT professional with medical covers from the company.Now a new face of doctors have emerged.One who will not think twice before announcing a serious ailment to you even if you dont have 1% of it.

I personally have not experienced it.But my friends and the people i have know have faced.

One of my friend’s friend ahd just backache and fever.He went to one of the most reputed hospitals in Hyderabad.He was made to have every possible test possible in their facility.In the end he was threatened that he may have a kidney disorder.For a guy aged 25 odd such news can have  quite an impact mentally as well as physically(can be termed as trauma may be).Now the nephrologist is summoned and he actually clears him after one day of hospitalization.Then again He is hospitalized on similar gorunds for the second day and the doctor discahrges him saying there was nothing.In the end whole episode costs that guy Rs 28000 onlyyyyy.

All this was done because that guy worked in an IT company which covered his medical expenses(insurance).That guy will get 28000 as his expenses but what about the trauma he had undergone,His family had undergone??

No medical cover no insurance,nothing

How can saviours of life do that ???

Now a new phobia is actually  coming up these days which is called DOCOPHOBIA.

I also suffer from it.This is fear of visiting a doctor thinking that he might tell you a disease which you actually not suffer from.I have seen people saying,”Arey yaar chhod na aise hi theek ho jayega!!Hospital jayenge vo bill ke chakkar mein kya  kya kar denge kya pata!! Chhod chill maar”.

I wil tell you my instance of this phobia.I got admission in a college.They wanted HIV test report.I went to a hospital nearby called IMAGE HOSPITALS in madhapur,hyderabad.I went to the receptionist.I asked her that i want to get a HIV test done.She looked at me with such greedy eyes,”AA GAYA BAKRA!!!”.Seeing her eyes i thought ye mujhe positive dikhane ke poore mood mein hai.Somehow i got courage to ask her the procedure and told her why i needed it.She told me it will cost 1000 bucks(a friend in Ludhiana had got it for 300 bucks).then she asked me to go to the lab.I went there.I met the lab persons.None of them knew english,then i talked in hindi they didnt even know it.They talked in teleugu to me.Somehow i conveyed them that i wanted a HIV test.They laughed like fools first as if i am coming directly from a brothel.Then asked me to give blood.and talked to each other.I got so scared and that DOCOPHOBIA hit me badly.I got up from there and said i dont want it from here.At VIKRAM HOSPITALS aslo similar scene.In the end i ahd started believing that these hospitals will surely show me  positive test report and will charge me money and all blah blah,

In the end i went to a small time clinic cum lab.There i was tested calmly and within 2 hours i got the report.NEGATIVE It was.I dont know why i feeled so relieved.Not that i feared HIV but of DOCOPHOBIA.

My dad yesterday told me.Its happening in North also.

Hey guys what happenin!!!These medical covers and insurance are for our well being.These people are exploiting for their quick money.But what they dont know is they are adding to english language.Their contribution The DOCOPHOBIA.

I know a few ppl suffering from it including me.I hope it doesnt spread because in the end these hospitals will have no patient to treat due to fear.