Tricks patients play to reduce my fees….

Most common would be “aree rahul you have become so big…. I know your parents since last 20 yrs… you were so small…I used to take you around….your dad is the best doctor around…very considerate and generous…. You also become like him only…” in short you reduce your fee or rather don’t take the consulting charges and become ‘generous’ like dad…
Second trick would be “doctor sahib we are very old patients of your mom… she was the best ophthal around… we used to talk so much everytime we paid a visit to her… she was a family to us…” indicating that I should not take fees as I automatically become a family member…
Third one… “sir am from this area and am either a union member or a very important member of the area…everyone listens to me… after u operate on my mother/father then there are many patients waitin to get operated…ill get all of them here only…” so by showin me the greed of the ‘so called waitin patients I should reduce my surgery charges’… and usually after surgery the person doesn’t show up… maybe he lied or maybe he got angry that I didn’t reduce my charges…reason best known to him…
One fellow I still remember told me that he wanted to show his kids to me and they had stopped wearing spectacles after they broke as they didn’t have money…I felt sad n asked him to get them….n to my surprise whn these ‘poor’ kids entered my clinic they wear wearing the best of clothes…even I wouldn’t have worn such clothes in my childhood…being a little bit angry over myself for getting fooled I told my asst to take only half fees…but still the person disappeared frm that day…maybe angry…

After going home whn I think over all these things it amuses me…brings a smile on my face…and then feel maybe its Gods way of bringing a smile on my face….