My mother had pain in hand and she cannot close her fingers. So we decided to visit Dr Hardikar as he has many year of experience (should be 40+ yrs experience). When we visited him he checked properly and asked for a MRI in his own hospital, which cost us 8000/- rupees. Then when we went to show that report he says that you have cervical and for that he gave medicine and asked us to have one more test. That test cost us 2000/-. After seeing report he asked us to have a minor surgery or hand.
When he talked about surgery we visited a local doctor (MD in ortho) and consulted with him. This time we didn’t tell him about MRI and other test reports what Dr hardikar asked us to have. He checked us and said that its clearly cervical and he asked us to have some exercise and started medicine. By that medicine my mother got queried.
Now I have only one question. Having 40+ years of experience, what is the use of that experience if he cannot do one level of diagnostic. I think these days many doctors or big doctors having this practice of asking for tests and earning money from that.