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|  | | In the Pink of Wealth
The story begins when the management of a charitable hospital suddenly decides to remove some of its most senior medical specialists for not bringing in sufficient revenue to the institution.
In their place, the trustees appoint a number of new consultants each of whom is required to pay lakhs of rupees as "donation." One applicant who refuses to pay is rejected though he is qualified in every way. Another who is appointed after "paying his dues" turns out to be mentally unstable and tries to murder his wife.
CHAPTER ONE
As medical director of Gopalji Damji Hospital, Dr Jagdish Choksi was perhaps the juniormost to attend the meeting. Despite his exalted title, he was painfully aware that his job depended entirely on the goodwill of the seven-member board of trustees. So he took care to arrive at the conference room several minutes before 3 pm, and heaved a sigh of relief as he entered because none of them had shown up yet.
In the sprawling lobby of the hospital, two admission clerks hunched over computer keyboards, hurrying to complete the medical records of several dozen patients |
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