Today we have different jurisprudence and discrimination between individual doctors and corporate hospitals

1.       For doctors there are  MCI ethics regulations but for corporate culture they do not come under MCI

2.        Corporate hospitals today are not under any medical regulations

3.       Doctors are not suppose to hire agents or touts but all corporate establishments have marketing departments.

4.       A doctor can be prosecuted under a criminal complaint but a company cannot.

5.       A doctors is not allowed to give rebates and commissions but to a corporate medical establishment there is no bar

6.       A doctor can not advertise but for a medical establishment there is no bar.

7.       If an estimate give is for 50,000 and bill comes to 150,000 the corporate culture is not blamed. The one who is blamed is the treating doctor.

[The author Dr K K Aggarwal is HSG of IMA H.Q.  and President Heart Care Foundation of India]