Do not hold to one doctor always

Hi friends,

I want to share this sadness and the lesson I learnt out of it. One of my friends[Aswath] expired last week. He had underwent a bypass at the age of 1. After all that I got to know from my friends, I learnt a good lesson and wanted to share it with everybody I know. His surgery at 1 happened at THE VERY FAMOUS hospital for heart treatment in Chennai in the hands of THE VERY FAMOUS DOC! He was going for regular checkup till 8th standard. At this point that doc has told everything is very fine now, you are normal, you can stop coming for checkup. True to that we have never seen him complain of chest pain. A fortnight ago he was about to leave for Dubai for taking up his job there. So he went to general checkup for KG. His heart bulged during checkup indicating clear abnormality. So those people went into further checkup and reported that the operation at 1 had gone terribly wrong and we cant do anything, you better take him quickly to that hospital. Same famous hospital, same famous doc told that operation can be done now/never. If not done he will survive for 3 odd years. So parents praying for the best and hoping for the best sent him for getting operated.

Their decision was correct, I dare to fight with anybody who claims it was wrong, anybody can say cooly that the decision was wrong now, because the result is known now. Hope people dont hurt their parents still by telling that their decision was wrong.

Operation happend for 9 hours and immediately after the operation he was brain dead, but the hospital people told that he is in coma to his parents after 4 days!! Operation had failed terribly this time and this time he had to pay with his life. Money plays is all that I can say about this!!!

Before all this drama he had got placed in L&T, which medically rejected him, telling stupid reasons like - he underwent bypass at 1!!, he had tooth problem!! Something tells me that those people had sensed this abnormality! If only they would have told him the proper reason we could have taken him straight away to hospital.

It could have been avoided at all places, my friend shall be alive now if so. Never beleive when a doc says dont come for checkup in such cases. Never stick with one doctor, as clearly even the famous hospital, the famous doctor may be wrong.

Looking at his body I dint beleive he wont get up and talk, he wont laugh at me and make fun of me. We have shared so many things in common, we used to drive fast and whenever we could catch hold of one vehicle we both used to race, all that I am thinking now is he overtook me in this race which need not have ever happened at all. I dint cry... because I still dont beleive he is no more. He dint die, he was killed because of all this.

Please create this awareness to all whom you know. Tell everybody, one more life may be saved.

Praying for my dear friend Aswath Kumar to rest in peace.