New Delhi: A young doctor of internal medicine from Chandigarh quit a well-known hospital on the first day of the job after what she described as a shocking experience.
In a video shared on her official Instagram handle, Dr Prabhleen Kaur claimed that the hospital’s owner — a senior gynaecologist — allegedly told the staff to admit almost every patient. She alleged that even those patients who didn’t need hospitalisation were admitted.
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In the viral video, she further added that to inflate the bills and boost revenue for the hospital patients were kept in the ICU longer than necessary.
‘Hospital only needed a physician in name’
“I joined a very reputed hospital. I thought I would work there in the mornings and run OPD at my own clinic in the evenings. They were paying really well, no doubt about that,” the doctor said in the video.
She added that the hospital only needed a physician in name while the owner, despite being a gynaecologist and not a physician, was managing all the patients herself. “That means she would decide every patient should be admitted, and she would also decide that every admitted patient should be kept in the ICU – and kept there for as many days as possible,” she added.
The woman doctor then said that she was deeply disturbed by these instructions and refused to be part of a system.
She added: “It would have been my name, but their wrongdoing. So I resigned, because I cannot allow someone to use me as a front for unethical practices.”
Netizens support doctor’s decision
The video, posted under the caption, ‘Ethical practice always because remember karma is a b*t*h. What goes around, comes around’ has garnered over 96,000 views, and was praised by the netizens. While some supported her decisions other described facing similar situations. One social media user wrote: “So brave of you to come out and say this loud!”
Another user sympathised with the hospital: “Who is going to pay your salary and the bills if one doesn’t charge patients?”
Some other users said that junior doctors are involved in this unethical practice, saying ‘they are businessman’.