Thursday, January 10, 2008

To Meet the Doc or Not

Today morning Shibu called me and told that he was suffering from fever and he wanted to see a doc. He wanted to meet Dr Khej. He practices in Apporva Clinic in Bangalore.

This doc is little different from docs normally find in Bangalore. Myself and Wife had visited him couple times before. I like him because he doesn't prescribe lot medicine. He usual advice will be rest and have tender coconut and slight medicines. Once he asked me drink coke when I had some stomach issues. That was time there were controversies that soft drinks contains poisons and other bad minerals in India. Might be he thought it will kill the worms in my stomach.

As usual we had to wait atleast an hour to see the doc. It was not because there were lot of patients but the doctor takes time during the appointments. He always make patient lies down in the bed and do some usual checks. These things are pretty unusual in Bangalore as most docs checks patients in parallel as much as possible as Time is Money.

I couldn’t control the smile when he prescribed the treatment. Thought why did I came there. Could have easily predicted it.

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