Are we being over-treated and over-tested? | Health Wealth, Ep 50
Do you ever feel doubtful as to whether you needed to do all those scans and blood reports (or worse, a double-balloon colonoscopy) just to find out that there is nothing wrong with you? Are you one of those people who has already googled ‘side effects’ of the medicines on your prescription even before you’ve left the hospital?
While there is no large-scale study available to measure public faith in the Indian healthcare system, most of us are no strangers to dinner-table horror stories about medical negligence, confusion about which specialist to consult, or that one nurse who inserts a…
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