Second opinion OPD

The OPD naming has evolved over the years to reflect the need of the patients.

For layman, OPD is the out patient department, where doctor examines the patients and prescribes medicines. Most OPDs don't have special names. Some can be broadly divided into new patient opd, where taking detailed history takes a lot of time and follow up patient opd where usually the patient is well controlled on treatment and keeps following with the doctor just to screen and pick up any new disease early or sometimes for dosage adjustments.

But you can also find other OPDs like usual (read 'rich') OPD and poor patients OPD.

But looking at the knowledge explosion, patients consider themselves as "i-know-all". Thus they don't trust the doctor.
Also, increasing mistrust leads to erosion of doctor- patient relationship.

The breed of Family doctors is soon become extinct and everyone wants to rush to specialists and super specialists. Thus, patients End up consulting more than one doctor.

Also with rising affluence, the average Indian wants the best health care to be provided for which he is ready to loosen his strings.

The day isn't far, when doctors will keep separate time slots for second opinion, for unsatisfied patients coming after talking to another doctor - the future of second opinion OPDs!