Should doctors capitalise on patients’ sufferings?

On News Point, we discuss NDTV’s sting operation in which we found the ease at doctors could be bribed into prescribing pills of specific companies; following the British Medical Journal’s highlight on corruption in India’s healthcare. A panel doctors and medical experts talk about how many from the doctors’ fraternity are corrupt, and also whether it is ethical of doctors to capitalise on a person’s illness by selectively recommending expensive medicines. (Audio in Hindi)
Watch full video: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news-point/news-point-corruption-in-medical-system/333717?curl=1407785389?yt

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