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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF BUYING USED MEDICAL EQUIPMENTS

9 Nov

Nowadays doctors and dentists prefer starting up their own clinic to practice. This is a good approach as it provides better opportunities and reduces the uncertainty of job. However, one might need a big amount of capital to set up a clinic. Apart from the basic cost of either purchasing or getting the practicing area on rent; there are other costs as well which are to be considered. One major expense is that of medical equipments which are quite costly. Instead of buying new equipments, one might go for the option of buying used medical equipments. Though money saving, but its not an easy job as it requires quite a lot of time as well expertise to find out any faults in the equipment. This is one of the major disadvantages of buying used equipments. The practitioner needs to be very careful and should select such a vendor whom he/ she can trust, because once a medical professional ends up buying faulty equipment; greater costs will be incurred for its repair and maintenance. However, this disadvantage can be surmounted by checking the equipment’s working, its physical condition and its year of manufacturing, as the older the device, more the chances of heavy and frequent maintenance.

Used medical equipments undergo constant up gradation and technological advancements, which makes the machine’s life shorter and cause it to become obsolete in a short span of time. This can become a problem if doctors/ dentists own the equipment, because they might have bought it for a very high price but once its newer version is in the market, the previous one becomes useless. And in such a situation the practitioners would have to get the newer model to keep up with the challenges of their profession. This is one of the advantages the doctors can get by buying used machines.