Change of Doctor..reduction medicine and increase in fees .

Change of Doctor……reduction in medicine and increase in fees…
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Being senior citizens  we get some benefits under Income Tax or traveling by train or standing in some line .etc...…Of course being senior in age , we are also privileged to visit physicians periodically.

We shifted to Thiruvanmiyur   Chennai in 2010   from Mylapore area and immediately saw that there was a Physician nearby our house and a few Medical stores also  .Our new   physician who is a good person used to charge us reasonably like Rs 100 per visit plus charges for BP, Sugar, Weight etc  Rs 70 every time   and  would prescribe some essential medicines of strength 4X and some new Vitamins, Calcium , Protein-- tablets,   Mind Strengthening tablets, etc all found available in his   clinic   kept behind, The Medicine cost used to be 4 times his fees but since he was having his shop where  only you get his  prescribed extra medicines we were compelled to buy all these  from his shop  getting him  total profit.

Last month he shifted his clinic to OMR..Old Mahabalipuram Rd… about 5 KM away from us. Here the clinic used to be after 1 PM up to 3 PM or night after 9 PM being convenient to us.

After his shifting we searched for another Physician near our surroundings.. Finally we found out another Doctor meeting our needs… visiting a Hospital nearby regularly. He was nice although we have to wait for sometime..He looked at our   current prescriptions and reduced all medicines by around 75 percent thereby cost per month was reduced. But his fees per head he charged Rs 300 thereby adjusting the total cost resulting in gain to him.

My wife was telling our daughter in USA today that our new Doctor reduced all medicines but increased his fees. She didn’t say anything but asked us to follow food, diet, exercise and take medicines regularly.

We have to see the results of our diagnostic tests after taking these reduced medicine for 3 months