A Disappointing Experience at Civil Hospital D.I. Khan – ENT Department

 A Disappointing Experience at Civil Hospital D.I. Khan – ENT Department

By Noor Qureshi

Yesterday, I visited the ENT department at Civil Hospital D.I. Khan. Unfortunately, what I observed was deeply disappointing. The ENT specialist was merely dictating the prescription aloud, and the trainee doctor was busy writing it down—as if the primary goal was just to issue medicine, not to understand the patient.

The consultation lasted barely a minute or two. There was no detailed check-up, no personal attention, and no real concern shown for the patient’s condition. What was more surprising was the repeated suggestion to buy the prescribed medicines from Bangash Medicine Shop, as if the patient’s welfare was secondary to someone else’s business profit.

It seemed the doctor’s heart had more sympathy for the shop owner than for the sick and needy patients sitting before him. Several medicines might not even be relevant or necessary—because a thorough examination, which is the bedrock of medical ethics, never took place.

This reflects a bigger issue: While these doctors may be well-versed in medical science, they are only half-educated. The education that teaches empathy, humanity, and civic responsibility is missing. And that responsibility goes back to the schools that shaped them and the families that raised them.

Doctors are supposed to be healers, not just prescribers. If the soul of the profession is lost, then we as a society must ask: Where did we go wrong?