Thursday, January 7, 2021

A Patient and the Hospital

In a 5-star rated hospital in India - a team of doctors recommended an emergency heart bypass surgery to a patient who had just got admitted for chest pain.

In such a situation, it would have been more prudent to take a second opinion.
But the patient and his family became very nervous. So, nonetheless, started to prepare for it. 
They were told that the cost of the surgery would be 20 Lakh Rupees.
The patient and his family thought that the cost was too extravagant. 
But thinking that his life is more important than money, they agreed to go for the surgery. 
The patient was given a waiver to fill out. 
One of the questions was about his occupation. 
In the box - 'company or place of employment, the patient wrote - CBI.

Within an hour, the whole atmosphere in the hospital changed.
Another team of specialist doctors came to check on him.
They checked him thoroughly - then conducted another round of tests - and finally concluded that the surgery is not required. Instead, they recommended some medications. 
At the time of discharge, they even gave the patient three months' worth of medicines free and a discount for the lab work too!

Six months have passed since then, and the patient is well and healthy. 
Every once in a while he goes to the hospital for a regular check-up, and the doctors give him a clean bill of health!
They even offer him a cup of tea whenever he visits!
He is very happy about the friendly and caring atmosphere at the hospital and heartily recommends everyone to go there for all of their problems.

However, he often wonders why, working as a clerk at the Central Bank of India, even his own family and friends don't care much for him, but he has gained tremendous respect from the entire hospital staff!

What he did not realize, however, was - that CBI - the abbreviation he wrote for Central Bank of India as his occupation was understood by the hospital staff as 'Central Bureau of Intelligence'. 
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It's interesting to see how a person's position and social status change people's attitudes towards him. 
The higher the position and social status, the more respect he or she gets.    
   
It seems to be true in every field, and almost everyone is guilty of this attitude. 
We all do the same. 
We always attend and respect people, not because of their knowledge, qualities, or virtues, but according to their status and the positions they hold. 
                      ' Rajan Sachdeva '

8 comments:

  1. Thank You For Sharing Great Message with simple example
    Many People never talk to others as they are human being, They Talk with their Money, Beauty, Art, position...

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  2. In a World wedded to materialistic pursuits & possession, respect for human virtues is obliterated by transitory positions of power& pelf. True depiction of contemporary global order.

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  3. If I am asked about the conclusion or abstract of the above story, I will narrate it as:
    It is not the status or power or money that affected or scared the teams at the hospital or in our daily life, it is the wrong doing that was prevalent in that culture and the other major thing was that the job description of the person or the institution that they were dealing with.
    If I am not doing anything wrong then I will not be scared of any position/status or any institution.
    The moment we are involved in corrupt practices then only we oblige people of status or change our practice or scared of people/company dealing with Investigation.
    So the moral is: we should keep our actions pure as Almighty Nirankar is watching us all the time and then no fear, no tension.

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  4. In real world it is very true how people judge others based on their position and status and not their spiritual knowledge.

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