Doctors are the persons you don't know them personally but you trust them blindly. You never ask them about the medicine they are giving you. You never ask them about the the injection they iject you. Do you? What if the injection they give you is poisoned? Or medicines? And if you die due to the mistake of doctor, then there is no law which makes police to arrest them. They simply can say that they tried to save the patient but they couldn't.
Let me tell you an incident which made me to write this article. Recently, one of my cousin was going to his job on a bike. While going to Job on the bike, he got something into his left eye. A small, tiny particle of dirt or a piece of brick. He tried to take it out but couldn't because it was so small. When he came back home at the evening, he tried again to take it out because it was causing the itching. The next day was Sunday so didn't have to go to job. He went to a doctor at the civil hospital.
He told the matter to the doctor. She was an eye specialist. She told him that she gonna give his eye an anaesthesia drops and then she will wipe out the dirt from his eye. He said ok. After putting some eye drops to his left eye, she started scratching his eyeball with something like sharp edged tweezers. My cousin didn't feel anything because he was given anaesthesia to his left eye. Anyways, she gave him some other eye drops and pain killers as medicine and he came back home.
The very next morning, when we woke up then he realizes that he can't see with his left eye. And it was paining too. He stood up and went to the mirror. He was shocked to see that his left eye was swollen and causing pain. He took the pain killer and slept again. After sometime, he woke up and checked his eye again. This time the swelling was not enough so he opened hi left eye with his hand. He was again shocked to see that his black eye ball turned into white now and other stuff was all red. And he couldn't see with the left eye.
He again went to same hospital but this time there was a male doctor. He checked his eye and got worried. The doctor called the female doctor who did this to my cousin. Don't know what they talked about but after the call ended, he gave my cousin some other medicines. My cousin came back home. He used that medicines but the condition was same. He went to another hospital and when the doctor saw his eye he was shocked too. He said straight forwardly that there is nothing to do now. You eye is ruined now. You will not be able to see from this eye again. The mother of my cousin became unconscious after hearing this because he is her only child.
They came back home and discussed with others. Some of their neighbors told them about a hospital which is almost 600km away and in an other province. They went there. It was hard to get appointment this soon but they said it is emergency so they got appointment on the following day. Doctors called a meeting after one of them saw my cousin.
A group of 5 doctors altogether, inspected the eye with some latest technology for more than 2 hours. Then after the discussion with each other, one of them said that there is hope. It can be treated but, if and only if the wounds filled first. There were wounds in the eye. If they treated well then they could say whether you will able to see or not. They gave medicines for the wounds.
But unfortunately the wounds were too deep. The wounds were getting more worse. They called another emergency meeting. And this time, they decided to go for operation. They said if they don't do operation they wounds will became more severe and can cause the damage to brain.
But this operation will cause him permanent sight lose. Otherwise, his brain will get damage and he will either be a memory less person or he will die due to sever damage to brain.
They suggested operation but not in that hospital. They suggested us to go into an other province in a bigger hospital. They went to hospital and management to get appointment.
The operation gone successful. They cut the connection between eye and brain. Now, he is safe from getting his brain damaged. But he lost his eye. He is 22 years blind to one eye now.
The first doctor should have taken responsibility for the result of the operation. They are called doctors to cure and help people with their illnesses. Yes, they are not perfect too but their robe carries a great responsibility to take good care of their patients. I felt bad and sorry for your cousin to experience such an incident. I hope he's doing good now and still hopeful.