FEAR BLACKMAILING OF PATIENTS AFTER ANGIOGRAPHY
Most of the time it is seen that angiography leads to some type of invasive surgery, either in the form of angioplasty or bypass surgery , unless the patient specifically refuses for it or the blockages are negligible or absent. Most of these surgeries are not performed on the merit of the cases. These surgeries, one need to realize, cost a lot and are major sources of money providers in the hospitals. Usually after angiography, once the blockages are found, the angioplasty doctors/surgeons start pressurizing the patient to go in for an angioplasty or bypass surgery. To emphasize their point, they start telling them “you are sitting on a time bomb, which can explode any time”. The patient fearful of the fact that he has blockages gives in to their demands and deposits money for it. If the doctors find the patient unwilling, they then catch hold of the relatives. The family members are as it is very scared and give in to their demands. Doctors tell them, “it is an emergency”. Please ...