Um, no where are you getting that from? Americans pretty much hate doctors, and the amount of venom out there in public for the health care field is tremendous. The entire health care crap model that bills you hundreds of dollars for one small blood test, or where a crucial medication costs in the millions - it's all blamed on the greed of docs, whereas, really, the problem is insurance companies and pharmaceutical and bioengineering monopolies that raise the prices.
Because Dr. Bahoo or damad can do much medicine from home when the practice of medicine relies entirely these days on tools and tests - so you’ll still have to show up to their clinic. And maybe the doc fee will get waived cuz you’re someone’s relative, but even that is getting harder and harder, if you’re a doc working in a corporation, you cant give your relative a kickback.
And you can’t draw blood from someone’s home and send it off to a lab independently of your business, and the laws don’t allow for it either. You must document a visit if you’re going to see even a relative. Which means you have to bill, because you gotta feed your staff of nurses, etc, even in a small private clinic.
And no one is gonna do your colonoscopy in your bedroom, uncle.
Nobody in my family is interested in Doctors...it is perceived as marrying "down". We are all businessmen and marry into other industrialist families. One of my cousins owns a hospital where he employs the same doctors (by the dozen) you people are going after left and right....
Are you talking about the hospital they just opened in Grand Prairie in Texas, where you get transported back to your home in a rolls royce after a hospitalization?
Are you talking about the hospital they just opened in Grand Prairie in Texas, *where you get transported back to your home in a rolls royce after a hospitalization?
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Only Pakistanis.
Really? Can't be true. Should we add this in hareem's thread?
Sadly, in Pakistan 'wambulance' is not available to take many people to hospital.
DALLAS: With the ownership of a Pakistani surgeon and his son, at 96 million dollar cost, Texas general hospital in Grand Prairie has been inaugurated and opened for public.
The hospital owner Texas prominent surgeon Dr. Hassan Hashmi & his son hospital CEO Suleman Hashmi briefed about the hospital to the audience of APPNA gathering.
A large number of local physicians of Pakistani origin and prominent leaders of the Pakistani community attended the reception.
Texas APPNA President Dr. Dawood Nasir introduced candidates for upcoming 2014 APPNA’s elections with Dr. Mubashir Rana for President and Dr. Shahid Rashid for finance secretary positions. A sumptuous lavish brunch was also served in honor of all the guests in attendance including a large number of local physicians and prominent community leaders of Dallas Fort Worth.
On this occasion, the hospital owner and a prominent surgeon Dr. Hasan Hashmi, his wife Mrs Salma Hashmi and other family members Suleman Hashmi, Mrs Marjan Pasha Hashmi, Faraz Hashmi, Mrs Fiza Shan Hashmi and Haroon Hashmi greeted all the invited guests and gave them a tour of the hospital.
Hospital owners Hasan Hashmi and Suleman Hashmi told the audience that this hospital is built at 96 million dollars cost. All the modern facilities are provided with all the latest technology and equipment.
Currently it can serve fifty patients though it has capacity of 200 beds. They said that their goal is to provide an excellent state of the art facility which can later be turned into a teaching hospital for medical professionals.
Dr. Hasan Hashmi, who had been trained at premium medical schools at Harvard and Yale, said that this is a dream coming true for him and he is very much satisfied with the performance of the hospital.
He said despite lack of marketing, thousands of patients have been already served by this hospital. He said that on one hand they are providing a medical facility for the patients and on the other hand they are providing job opportunities to a large number of local residents.
He said currently the hospital has 225 employees which can be raised in access of one thousand in near future. He said the hospital had a satisfactory performance in first year.
Dr Hashmi further said that the hospital’s surgeons performed surgeries even on non-working days and employees are kept on attractive terms. He said that the ER has a capacity for 80 patients.
He said that a number of hospital monitoring agencies including HCAHPS have also expressed their satisfaction over the services and facility. He said that the hospital has latest state of the art specially machines for endoscopy and other surgical equipment.
The hospital floor is of special anti-bacteria material. The operation theaters are equipped with facilities where surgeries could be watched from outside in the lobby on special screens.
He said that all hospital beds are VIP beds where patients are carried on special Rolls Royce limos to their homes upon their discharge from hospital. The hospital stay for patients is made so luxurious that a lot of patients don’t even want to go home.
The Mayor of Texas city of Paris, Dr. Arjumand Hashmi was also present on the occasion.
Did you not notice the question mark in my post? If it is true then not good. Not to say there are some other hospitals who might not be doing the same. Owners of this hospital cannot be the first in this regard.
Having this kind of reputation actually works against the hospital and ‘agencies’ swarm all over it especially when owners names sound so foreign.
Um, no where are you getting that from? Americans pretty much hate doctors, and the amount of venom out there in public for the health care field is tremendous. The entire health care crap model that bills you hundreds of dollars for one small blood test, or where a crucial medication costs in the millions - it's all blamed on the greed of docs, whereas, really, the problem is insurance companies and pharmaceutical and bioengineering monopolies that raise the prices.
I mean in terms of desis. One of my friends is into match making and she says all people ask for are doctors for their daughters. Even in the city I live in, you are part of the "in Crowd" only if you socialize with doctors.
Everyone feeling proud of rejecting doctors. Talk about inverted snobbery. Doctors are humans too there will be those that are compatible matches and those that are not, nothing wrong with marrying or rejecting doctors.
This grand prairie hospital is a total embarrassment. Docs come from Pakistan , attend ivy leagues with essays probably with promises of using their knowledge to help humanity. This is their humanity. Transporting wealthy Americans home in limos.
Why shouldn't doctors go corporate? For years there was no hospital in that area and people had to go far for medical care. Previous owners screwed up that hospital and people need to applaud new entrepreneur taking over a deserted place.
Many studies suggest acute care hospitals owned by the doctors provide better care.
Moreover, what is this got to do with women with botox?
Do you really think the people of Grand Prairie can afford that place? Gimme a break, you prolly need killer insurance to get in. They’re running it on how many beds? 200? of which how many are fit to actually serve people? A fraction of that. They’re probably billing the crap out of people to stay out of red, and they’re also probably relying on donations from their rich doctor friends.
I actually know the people of that group. I admit, some of the docs in the area are nice people, and they do run free clinics, and the like elsewhere in Dallas-Ft. Worth area, and do fundraisers and the like. However, these docs have a substantial amount of showbaazi that’s a little unsettling.
I’ll give you an ex. I went to a fundraiser organized there by this whole group of docs - not necessarily the hashmi’s but other docs who are supporters of these hospitals. I think there is another one in Plano that is run by Paki CEO’s. So I go to the show, and I am there, ready to donate and to take a seat somewhere, and I am waiting for my ticket. I was wearing a simple shalwaar kameez, nothing fancy, because unlike other girls, I do not fly to Pakistan every year to get an HSY wardrobe done (). So I was pretty much ignored, and other women and families were serviced for tickets before me, and I was pushed back.
Then at some point, I saw some lady that looked familiar from the web, asked her if she knew so and so, because there was a ticket to be waiting for me there, I had made a payment, and I was the girl from Florida who was new to the city, and this is what I do for a living. At that point, THE ENTIRE WORLD changed.
I was ushered into a front seat by the stage, for crying out loud, when the ticket I purchased would have put me towards the back, and I was introduced to other doctor families.
Abhay, so if I am a frikkin pharmacist, or a businesswoman, or a real estate agent, I don’t get that kind of VIP treatment?
So you had some bad experience. And hence became bitter. You should let the owners know about your concerns.
Regardless,the hospital in that community is a blessing. And as far as one can expect, asking for govt. based insurance would bring the laws dictated by the govt. Hence, they maybe looking for only few good insurances and donations.
Still, nothing wrong with that. 200 bed hospital is a fairly large hospital if it has other important services available.
Another hospital in another community owned by the physicians has performed far better than the one only a couple of miles away owned by a billion-dollar crappy organization and is finally being bought by another company after having bad reputation for decades.
This hospital is no charity, so no doc should think they're doing the world a favor by opening these things. Yes, they service people, but this is a mockery of the system. Sending someone home in a limo? Really now? If they wanted to practice charity, then go work at one of the community hospitals and improve the services there or raise funds for those hospitals - they at least take care of the poor.
This hospital is no charity, so no doc should think they're doing the world a favor by opening these things. Yes, they service people, but this is a mockery of the system. Sending someone home in a limo? Really now? If they wanted to practice charity, then go work at one of the community hospitals and improve the services there or raise funds for those hospitals - they at least take care of the poor.
With due respects, you have it all wrong. This particular hospital is not really a charity hospital and is largely for profit. Maybe a part of it is charity like teaching, Not sure and will check.
And those community hospitals are also not charity hospitals either. Watch 60 minutes which was aired few months ago about that particular hospital owned by billion dollar company and how they were exploiting the system and providing substandard care to patients.
There are hospitals (claim to be charity or community based) who fly rich people from all over the world including middle east and when those people land on airport they are greeted by hospital staff and get to and from hospital luxury transport service.
You buy first class ticket, you get first class service. Someone pays out of pocket high amount, they can get limo service. So many hospitals offer valet parking for all of their patients regardless what insurance they have.
Perhaps you don't know that only 238 hospitals (as per one estimate) are owned by doctors in US. None claims to be charity altogether.
Hospital get higher reimbursement but also have large bills to pay. And somehow rich pay for poor and freebies.
This grand prairie hospital is a total embarrassment. Docs come from Pakistan , attend ivy leagues with essays probably with promises of using their knowledge to help humanity. This is their humanity. Transporting wealthy Americans home in limos.
Or they could have even made a hospital in Pakistan or contributed to some organisation working on health. Maybe they already do so i shouldn't assume.
). So I was pretty much ignored, and other women and families were serviced for tickets before me, and I was pushed back.