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There is a story doing the (ward) rounds that while patients have to groan and bear with doctors downing their steths at the National Hospital a contingent of around thirty medical practitioners and their spouses were coincidentally airlifted to a South East Asian capital on a joy ride yesterday a weekend trip of fun and frolic funded by a leading pharmaceutical firm.

Civic minded members of this respected profession who swear the Hippocratic oath labouring over a Code of Ethics for these monitors of the health of the nation are wondering whether these high-ups in the Health Services (some holding office in medical associations) will be obliged to reciprocate the generosity of the host company when scribbling out those little chits and big orders for medicinal drugs.

It's ham on the beaches for the docs on the jaunt and gram (kadala) on the benches for the patients sans clout.

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