title: Is Patient's Preference for Medical Care Changing?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An assorted group of 1000 army personnel below officer's rank was surveyed to find out its preference for medical set up between that of the Armed Forces and the civil.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey for preference of medical treatment was done based on a structured questionnaire. The sample was taken from different states of India covering the entire nation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  65% of the surveyed personnel preferred the Armed Forces medical set up to that of the civil. Yet 35% is a big number going for civil medical set up. About half of the above would choose alternative therapy like homeopathy and ayurveda.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Two issues come to notice. Whether there is any scope for introducing popular alternative therapy in the Armed Forces and does an improvement in the existing medical set up in the Armed Forces change the preference of the clients?
authors.affiliation: Ex-Dir MS (OPP), O/o DGMS (Army), 'L' Block, New Delhi.
authors.forename: Tommy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Varghese
keywords: Alternative therapy; Clients preference for medical care