By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD
After I wrote my last article about the many fake doctors who were exposed and apprehended by the Police at Kolkata, I have received a spate of letters and phone calls from my readers asking me to write a follow up article guiding people about how they can ensure that they do not end up entrusting their health into the wrong hands, especially when it comes to selecting specialists. Many people have narrated seemingly harrowing experiences of how they were taken on very expensive and painful rides by some so-called reputed doctors which made me feel a little distressed myself. If what some of them have said is even partially true, I feel that we doctors have to do some soul searching to see on which side of the fence of ethics we are standing.
