Ulta Pulta
Doctored death
Jaspal Bhatti

A patient dies and reaches Yamraj’s court. The Yamraj asks his assistant, "Check his accounts and see if he has done something good during his life time." The assistant said, "Sir, actually, he did nothing worthwhile but just after his death he saved the job and life of a poor doctor."

Yamraj was perplexed and asked for an explaination. "Sir, a doctor at a ‘five-star’ hospital was given a notice if he didn’t meet his target of performing a certain number of operations and earn the hospital minimum of a few lakh rupees, he would be fired.

"So the doctor performed half-a-dozen operations on this dead man. Without this dead patient’s help, the doctor would have starved," replied the assistant.

I recently read a news that in most corporate hospitals doctors were working to meet targets. The success of a hospital is not gauged by the number of lives it saves but by the number of operations that are performed there. So at their annual general body meetings the hospital authorities must thank all dead patients who saved the hospital by giving their lives.

A doctor opened a hospital and named it, Sir Kaka Ram Hospital. A journalist asked him who was Kaka Ram? "Is that your father or grandfather’s name?" The doctor replied in negative. The journalist again asked, "Sir, is Kaka Ram a famous doctor after whom you named your hospital?" The doctor replied, "Kaka Ram was my noblest patient. I treated him for 20 years, which enabled me to buy the plot of this hospital."





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