Good patient care is less of a profession and more of a vocation. Those who are aware of it practice patient care with concern and dedication.
But, today, we hear many things about abuses in medical profession and drug industry. For drug industries it is business. They are out to make money. More than that, some of them indulge in unethical ways of pushing drugs down the throat of patients. Some do it for experimenting the effect of medicine on patients. Some others peddle drugs through sales agents, through practising doctors and through medicine counters.
It was reported some years ago that some company made free condoms available to people in Bangladesh through betel/pan shops to study their effectiveness. It was not their concern about its cancer causing or harmful effects on its users. It was their way of doing a survey!
It is often heard that sometimes patients come back from hospitals with a kidney less. Some money loving hospitals and doctors recommend overuse or unnecessary extension of the use of ventilators for terminally ill or dying patients. Even in some charitable hospitals charity dips when it comes to extracting full charges from poor or penniless patients. Even dead bodies are unethically declared unclaimed and sold to peddlers waiting outside. People often hear that unethical organ sale is a roaring business.
Rural areas in poor countries get flooded with semiliterate practitioners whose injection shots produce instant result. But, the after-effect may be horrible. Governments responsible for heath care need more than a window dressing when it comes to health care.
The public also need to become aware of the harm that is prevailing in the medication field. NGOs need to step in to point out the need for reform or for better efforts in health care.