Taking leave from the organization, amidst torturing leg ache, a patient goes to hospital with an expectation if doctor could at least mitigate his pain. He meets the doctor for the second time.
On seeing the patient, doctor simply frowns. Doctor upon seeing the patient repeatedly, gets fed up with the disease (or patient) simply scolds the patients.
‘You liar?’ the doctor hollers ‘I have treated so many patients till now and I have never met a patient who lied like you.’
Patient bearing all pain answers ‘Doctor I don’t know what you are trying to say. I have come from long way paying a very high taxi fare. Who would dare to lie to consume medicine?’
Surely for an employee who survives as a guard, it is matter of great concern when he has to reserve taxi every seven days.
‘This’ doctor said looking at his swollen feet ‘is nothing but the accumulation of fluid and it bears no pain to the patient.’ Then he holds the feet and presses the swollen part so strongly that the patient almost losses his consciousness. The other patients look at each other in wonder. He is pretty sure that patients with same disease fled from the scene fearing the treatment.
‘Go to chamber 2’ the doctors ordered.
‘But then I heard the doctor is on leave’ replies the patient.
‘No he should be back by now.’
So the patient goes to chamber 2 to be received with a big lock on the door.
‘He is on two months leave’ corrects another ‘who sent you here?’
‘That doctor’ points to the doctor who sent him.
‘Go back to him; he knows very well that he won’t be back for two months’ says doctor.
Fearing for the worst treatment, he crawls to the army hospital. Reaching hospital, he finds doctor closing the door (office closure time). Understanding the seriousness of the case, doctor opens the door and treats him.
It is bit a sad thing to hear this type of story in the land which is branded with Gross National Happiness. Doctors are there to treat patients and their job is at stake without patients. By saving lives they are doing the noblest thing in the world. But then I wonder who will lie to consume medicine. Me! Not for sure.
Now he wonders where else will he go when the next pain should attack him. In fact a mild ache has already started and it is just a matter of time when he should lie unconscious in the hand of doctor.
Contributed By: Sonam Pelgen
[Disclaim: This article is not meant as a complaint to the above professionals but there is at least a decent way to deal with patient. They see you as a God their eyes and I suppose this is not how God treat his subjects]
pelgen...this happens everywhere in bhutan..not just doctors, it's the case with other civil servants, too!! they are so judgmental and, for the most part, they do things according to their whims...when i went to bhutan over the winter 2 years ago, i had a similar experience in the samdrup jongkhar district office..i went there to apply for my lost sim card.. in front of the office were two farmers from a far away place who have came there exclusively to get a sim card each.but they were not given by the lady who was in the office as the guy responsible for issuing lost sim cards was off...so i just went in to request my lost sim card and i told these two guys to follow me..and turns out that she gave me a sim card after making some fuss and the two farmers got too bcos of me...had i not been there, these two guys would have wasted two days or had to spend some more days until the guy responsible for issuing cards is back..i heard they are from somewhere near gomdar..and gomdar is pretty far from s/j.. it's sad, though, that they treat the illiterate so badly..if this is the trend bhutan surely is on its road to gross national happiness..good luck from my side!!lol
ReplyDeletemistake...i meant to say "gross national unhappiness," not "gross national happiness" which our politicians tout tirelessly..lol
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