Now a days in India, market driven self-investigaitons are offered by many corporate laboratories, in the form of various packages like: whole body check-up, preventinive check-up, etc. without consultation with physician/consultant, which causes wastage of resources and ethical issues are need to be debated.
Interpretaiton of results of investigation is depends on half knowldage or inadequate knowldage by the patient side. This unneccessary demand for investigaitons needs to be discussed and debated and look after by regulatory authorities/bodies like, National Medical Commission (NMC), Ethics and Medical Registration Board(EMRB) and state medical council and medical fraternity.
If self-medication is harmful than why not self-investigaiton is harmful. This issue is of public interest seeing the lack of knowledge among masses related to medical science and advancement in research day-by-day.
Self investigation is totally a corporate advertising and selling investigation to the people i general which leads increased over the counter medication and supplement selling.
It often leads to half, wrong and even over medication which highly dangerous to the people and patient.
Topic needs to debated and proper guideline should be issued and implemented by concerned bodies
Serious threat to public health, because most of the public is functionally illiterate on health isssues due to complex nature of medical scinece.