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This is true. The big "chain" hospitals do have pushy tactics, doctors with lab prescription quotas etc. Similarly, but at the other end of the spectrum, there are hospitals in smaller towns that mistreat you or send you off with painkillers.

Clearly, your mileage will vary, so you have to do research, ie, talk to people you trust, much like everything else in India :)

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I've had good experience with big "chain" hospitals, be it Apollo, Columbia Asia, Wockhardt, or whatever else. I never found them pushy. One of the docs from there quit and opened his own clinic. He doesn't even charge me for consultation. Don't know why.

Of course, doing your own research is critically important. Many doctors are dangerously ignorant of anything that doesn't come under their specialty.

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