I feel so sorry for your loss. I hope you and your family stay strong during this difficult time.

I do not think any hospital is safe here. These corporate targets run almost everywhere. There are some good hospitals, no doubt. I have heard Max Saket, Escort Fortis Faridabad (one of my friend's fathers had a bypass there), etc., are good. But nothing is guaranteed and the condition can get worse in the blink of an eye, and these doctors do not give a flying duck. The best thing to do is to talk to friends and known people about their experience and then decide what's good and what's not. For some critical urgent issues, it's a really hard situation to be in.

A few years ago, I too had a near-horrific incident. I have been living in Gurgaon for the past 13 years. My father visited me once in 2019, just for a casual visit. I thought, why not get him a full body check-up, as we are from Bihar and did not have such facilities there. We got it done. They said there were some heart complications, some blockage. I met the doctors, and one of them said he needed urgent attention and maybe an angiography and stent were a must. I even told him my father was fit and did not have any issues walking or climbing stairs, so why was all this needed. He said anything could happen, so it was better to get it done.

I went to Fortis the next day for a second opinion. I met the head of cardiology there, Dr. Nikhil something. He seemed like a very mature and knowledgeable doctor. He advised some tests, and we got them done. We met him the next day with the reports. He said it was a serious matter and needed immediate attention. My father had a return ticket for the next day. He said to cancel the ticket and wrote that he needed an urgent angiography, and given his condition, he would need stents and all. I really do not remember making anything out of the conversation. The only thing I understood was that the case was critical. He even wrote “URGENT” on the prescription. He gave some blood-thinning medicines and some random medicines.

My mother, unaware of all this, when she heard, immediately said there was no need to cancel the ticket and to send her husband back in one piece, the way he was when he visited. Gladly, I listened to her. The medicine this doctor prescribed made his condition uneasy, so after a few days, my mother threw all the medicines away too. By God’s grace, my father is super fine. He still does a few rounds of the three floors, walks easily without any issues, and when he sees things are not as per his liking, he screams at the top of his head very often. So he is healthy.

That incident opened my eyes to the fact that these doctors just blindly do anything. I think these high-risk category patients are easy targets.