Mohammed Al-Ohaidib Okaz A former Shoura Council member was astonished when I told him the name of a particular medical doctor he had been talking about before he had even finished his complaint against him. He told me that he took his sister, who was complaining of severe chronic pain in the neck, to the orthopedic doctor at a government hospital in Riyadh. The doctor told her that she did not need an operation and that her pains were not dangerous. He then turned his back to her, indicating that the visit was over before she had finished telling her complaint to him. The ex-councilor told me two weeks later they visited the same doctor in his clinic at a private hospital. He said the doctor this time welcomed his sister very warmly and was so nice to her. The fact I knew the doctor's name even before he had completed his story did not stem from the fact that I was a jinn or a magician but because the man was so notorious in Riyadh. He was known for being uncouth in the government hospital and for being so nice in his own private clinic. Another man who works with this doctor at the same government hospital said he took his mother to him in his private clinic where he prescribed her injections in the knee. As the injections were expensive, with each costing about SR2,500, the poor man asked the doctor if he could take his mother to him at the government hospital. The doctor became furious and asked the man to buy the injections from the pharmacy of the private hospital if he wanted his mother to be cured. The ex-councilor did not ask where to complain because he knew that my answer to him would be to go to the Shoura Council because it was one of the reasons for such practices. The poor citizen did not know where to go because the government hospital knows the doctor has a clinic at this private hospital.
The ex-council member said the Ministry of Health would not accept any complaint against this doctor. My answer to him and to the poor citizen would be to turn to Twitter. The best method to reveal to the public the bad doctors and merchants is to name and shame them on Twitter.
