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How some Doctors Prescribe these days

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Valliyur Satyavageeswaran | 17/08/2012 01:16 PM | 

When it comes to medical opinion,  we need to accept it as a fact of life that it has become dangerously subjective and person-dependent, reports  

 
One of my relatives had gone for an eye check-up in Mulund (West), Mumbai. The eye specialist informed him that, at the age of 77, he had what is called ‘nuclear cataract’. This condition called for emergency surgery. My relative consulted another doctor for a second opinion. The second doctor rubbished the claims of the first—that it was a nuclear cataract—and said that he could afford to wait for six months more for having the ...

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