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| Sunday, 23 June 2002 |
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Point Blank : An underpass for a bypass Would you believe it? The Manager of a Cardiac Unit in a private hospital has come clean. He has put it down that Cardiologists who refer patients to a named Resident Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon (a non-national) would be entitled to a special payment of a cool five figures as a 'goodwill maintaining' measure! Obviously, these gestures of goodwill are at the patients' expense. Then, with incentives such as this 'underpass', there are bound to be hordes being herded for bypasses doubles, triples and quadruples. There is also speculation that the incentive first offered in March may have been upped by now considering the market situation with an archer whom the Greeks believed sent down arrows of disease offering healthy competition. What a shame! A spoilsport has copied the Manager's letter to the Medical Council. And the Council has, in turn, written to all colleges alerting them to this latest attack on the ethical standards that those under Hippocratic oath are expected to maintain. But the Council is seen to be utterly ineffective in ensuring standards that are fast being eroded by the might of market forces. How many down the line benefit when the arteries of one show signs of getting clogged? What with Cardiologists falling over one another offering long life if only you go under the scalpel of that favoured surgeon? Well, well, a new world order is surely taking shape. - Sniper |
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