Patients carry certain expectations before their visit and the resultant satisfaction or dissatisfaction is the outcome of their actual experience The most important reason to conduct patient satisfaction surveys is that they provide the ability to identify and resolve potential problems before they become serious. There are only few studies done for comparison of patient satisfaction with the services provided in government and private hospitalsin India. We measure patient satisfaction with the services provided in government and private hospitalsin Indore (M.P.) city ,through questionnaire survey .We did conveyance sampling and applyingpaired t –test .ATotal 66 hospitalized patients from government and private ownership had been selected for interview. This comparative study entails us why private hospitals are more suitable for public despite high cost of treatment and what measures are required forpublic hospitals owners to satisfy their patients but many times resources constantans is their answer.

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 Manoj Raghuwanshi Assistant Professor, Acropolis Institute of Management Studies and Research, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India  Dr. Avinash Desai Group Director, LNCT Group Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Manoj Raghuwanshi, Dr. Avinash Desai ““Private Hospitals are More Suitable for Public Despite High Cost of Treatment”” International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) vol.1 issue 8, pp.01-07 August 2017  URL: https://www.rsisinternational.org/journals/ijriss/Digital-Library/Vol.1&Issue8/01-07.pdf

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