Money & medicine – Part 2

Let me take an example of more common problem of fever and how economy decides the level of care. In a general out-patient care 80% of patients will be infections. Another fact that we have to remember is patients in low socio economic status earn about $4-6 a day, on which the whole family lives. [...]

Money & medicine

Money determines many things in places where insurance is not in place like India. Whether a patient is going to undergo thrombolysis or just heparin for myocardial infarction, thrombolysis for an acute stroke or just aspirin or for that matter any treatment becomes dictated by how much he/she can spend. Let us say a patient [...]