Doctor Hungry

I have been the route meeting with so many quacks that I am fatigued at the way some doctors/specialists don’t think twice about ripping patients off. Having said that however, I would like to point out that there are so many earnest doctors who go the mile and are an honor to their profession. This post is not about the earnest doctors, but the rip offs.

Sometime ago I sought the professional expertise of a renowned specialist who had an entourage to handle her every whim and fancy. I paid to consult her but was tossed aside to meet her intern! Being ill and hazy, I had no say in the matter but this left me extremely annoyed that I had to stiff up a large bill… for what? With irate friends, colleagues and relatives who have been shortchanged by a few quacks, I have penned a couple of lines below…

Doctors, physicians, radiologists, new life healers, and others we have met
Treat us with disdain and mere guinea pets
A pill here, blood transfusion there and scans everywhere
Sets the mind in a tizzy; the blood pressure a frightened glare.

Respect for the profession a few may have
While others share a percentage with the pharmacists lab
Hope reigns in a patients mind visiting Dr. Hungry
Who is way too keen to get his hands on your hard earned money!

Scans, hospitalization is an eventuality
Because of a few whose refrain is “show me the money!”
Heck, what do we do we collectively reason
Or are we just a salary for his lackluster season?

Comments

Smitha Jai said…

i too have met so many docs. most of them are out to get money really. i loved the rhyming stuff yas.

January 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM

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