Beyond the Doctor Patient Relationship
Background;
Relationship of and for Doctors
As all doctors aware of the fact that since old days Medical Profession and Doctors are keen to maintain mainly two types of relationships.
But with changing norms of medical Practice…it is the time to revise the relationships of doctors and relationships for doctors.
Known Relationships are:
Doctor & Patient Relationship ( 1 )
Doctor & Doctor Relationship. ( 2 )
Need is to consider and to elaborates following few Relationship.
Improve your self.
Doctor’s relationship with his own. ( 3 )
Interesting? But it is the fact that it is the time for practicing doctor to self analyze and try to improve on various aspects.
This thing is not even thought of by us…as in Institutional hospitals we never face relatives as such. Regarding billing of patient we are never involved.
Separate Social Welfare Department handles the cases of poor patients.
But in case of small setup…doctor has to look in to various matters…and needs to get expert in them.
Do not neglect.
Doctor and Patient’s Relative Relationship. ( 4 )
This is the most important relationship…doctors should adopt as routine part of his profession.
Doctors should start elaborating different aspects and ways of it.
Doctors should aim to make a definite format of this relationship.
Doctors should learn skill to develop healthy relationship with patient’s relative…which now days is totally ignored…due to lack of time…busy practice…and competition.
Apart from this it is essential to work hard on this relationship…so as survive in Medical Profession in safe way.
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Think on it.
Doctor and Patient’s Non Related Person’s Relationship. ( 5 )
In recent changing norms of practice of Medical Profession, this type of class has risen and grown at an unbelievable rate.
These persons may be anybody…unemployed, uneducated, highly qualified but over smart, so called young blood…or eminent politician…or may be having bad social background.
They may want to meet you irrespective of your consulting hours.
They want to meet patient irrespective of visiting hours.
They are with free license to scold staff or abuse them.
The only intention of some of these is to prove them and or to dominate doctor in any way…decent or indecent.
Doctors now need to work very seriously and sincerely on this relationship.
Strength in unity
Doctor and Doctors Relationship (6)
Doctor and Doctor Relationship is okay…as recently every doctor is keen to maintain it and or to improve it. But this will not suffice.
Today’s need is to have good and healthy Relationship between a Doctor and Doctors.
They are the only qualified persons who can help to handle critical or untoward complications.
These are the persons who are always there to guide you on medical knowledge or related matter as medico legal cases or else issues.
Do not be like a frog making an attempt to get enlarged to compare with bull…or do not egoistic to label self as Lion…as they are now in trapped condition and are in vanishing stage.
Link is doctor…staff…relative…and patient.
Doctors and his Staff’s Relationship (7)
In this the most important things is to maintain a standard on various issue…which looks of no importance to us.
Staff should behave decently with doctor…and should be bold enough to face relative’s harassments.
Doctor must maintain his decency…not scold staff in front of relatives or patient…as this may reflect as something wrong in medical treatment or care.
Unnecessary scolding on your staff may loose their efficiency…and also patience approach towards relatives.
Remember – tit for tat policy.
Doctor and paramedical person’s relationship (8)
This is the Relationship between a Doctor and medical store…or laboratory or ‘X’ ray clinic…etc.
The relationship between these is there…but…need is to make it more healthy.
Your immediate comment regarding comment of report in bad way or manner may not only loose faith on investigation but also raises queries on medical profession or on medical practice as a whole. Please don’t do such thing…better option is to cross check the investigation or to repeat it.
Contrary they may learn from you and may comment on your treatment part…and whole system may collapse.
So take care.
Be flexible on the issue of charges taken by lab or ‘X’ ray clinics…
Who is making profit and how should not be the issue…instead be relate on emotional ground…with due respect to each other…so as to benefit to both.
Treat them as your friend in need…and no doubt…they are there all the time to help you in any sort of matter.
Quit the profession.
Doctors and Society Relationship (9)
Doctors with all his limitation should actively involve in social Life.
His target is to earn…but he should also aim to earn faith and best wishes.
Do not worries if you are not too famous as a doctor…but take care not get defamed in any manner.
In spite of fact that nobody can satisfy everybody…one can make a mind not to hurt anybody…though it is also very unlikely…as you can not please everybody.
Need is to work hard on your self.
Your image good or bad may be reflection of your profession…so being a doctor reflects in a decent manner or quit the profession.
Political doctors
Doctor and Local politician’s Relationship. ( 10 )
This is weapon which can work in both the ways…so relationship is to be kept or maintained with out crossing limits.
As far as regarding controlling mob in mishap…the role of politician is doubtful.
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Doctors joining political parties…so as to represent them.
Will this work? Let future decide it.
Need is the self protection to fight against ill health
Doctor and Local Police authority Relationship. ( 11 )
There is no harm to keep healthy relationship with them…but it should be…as persons needed in profession…
Be decent to newly joined constable also…and follow all norms of good manner and decency…that is enough.
Need is assurance to get sound mind
Doctor’s Association & Police authorities Relations ( 12 )
Periodic meetings with local level and district level with panel of doctors is one of the suggested or accepted way to minimize physical attack on doctors or his property.
This was what decided by both…doctor’s association and police authorities in Raigad district…after Pen incidence of havoc by mob.
But even after four month…no directed move has been taken by doctors.
Be aware of pharma co.
Doctor and Pharmaceutical Company relationship ( 13 )
Be particular…but do not insult or dominate their Medical representatives.
Do not purchase any medicine from medical representative as he is not authorized person…If he supplies you any particular drugs buy it with proper receipt.
Do not accept any cash or valuable or costly gift from medical representatives by assuring sell of particular drug.
New drug in market…evaluate it first.
‘Not to win all the time’
Doctor and money relationship ( 14 )
Be regularize your charges…it is service…and profession…not a business.
No body ignores the fact that doctors are to be paid according to their service.
Bur recent world of bargaining, recent world of consumer is making you compulsion to learn an art of marketing strategy.
As more than 90 percent relatives bargains…particularly in rural area or small town…as far as medical bill is concerned.
The doctors should learn to tackle the situation in fluency.
Relative not paying… is their inhumanity…But you not allowing discharge on ground of not paying your charges… may loose your decency more than humanity.
It is the truth that after giving your time, after loosing your sleep, after loosing your life span by stress while treating patient…you can only expect reward in term of money
It is natural…as patient or relatives…do not even give vote of thanks to doctors for treatment.
But try to acclimatize your self with fact that it worth not expecting anything… no money or thanks sometimes.
Just learn to forget it…as if game of life… ‘Not to win all the time’.
To read patient’s mind.
Doctor and the rest of world relationship ( 15 )
Doctors in general live in their own world. For them their patients and their medical knowledge is the only world in which they are active.
Need is that doctors should take active updates on changing world…new problems like corruption…deadly competition…changing life styles of people…and all the things concerned with living human.
This will be useful for them to study the psychology of patient’s relatives and also to read patient’s mind.
And the doctor will be a complete doctor examining and treating patient as whole on aspect of physical, mental and social health not only disease targeted.
