On Doctor's Day (1st July) Special- Thankyou Doctor
Special Writeup for Doctor’s Day (1st July)
Thankyou Doctor……
First of July has been designated as Doctors’ Day in India. It happens to be the birthday of a very famous Physician of India, Dr B C Roy. Ironically, he passed away also on July 1, 1962 on his birthday. For Bihari’s it is a matter of pride that he was born on July 1, 1882 at Bankipore, Patna. He dedicated his life to the upliftment of Indian society, especially, the downtrodden. Not only did he excel as a physician, he was an educationist, social reformer, freedom fighter (joined Mahatma Gandhi in the Civil Disobedience movement), leader of Indian National Congress and later became chief minister of West Bengal
It is indeed important that both the doctors and patients be made more aware and conscious of the existence of this day and at the same time, of its relevance and significance in the larger context of healthcare in our country.
Whereas society owes a debt of gratitude to physicians for their contributions in enlarging the reservoir of scientific knowledge, care, support and treatment of patients, increasing the number of scientific tools, and expanding the ability of professionals to use the knowledge and tools effectively in the never ending fight against disease and death. At the same time we can follow following points in dealing with patients in order to improve doctor patient relationship as well as to improve our diagnostic skills:
Never consider the preliminary history and examination of casual importance, but establish and adhere to a routine so that we will not fail to take a complete a history and make a complete clinical examination of every patient.
Never convey to a patient the impression of haste. Avoid unnecessary interruptions. He must feel that his problem is important to us and that our full attention and serious consideration are being concentrated upon it.
Avoid inflicting pain, by gentle manipulation. If momentary pain is unavoidable, warn the patient first, especially a child, who will never forgive or forget if we hurt him/her after promising not to do so.
Never jest with a patient complaining an ailment, nor attempt to belittle his complaints. If he did not regard them seriously he would not be in our clinic. But do not hesitate to reassure him that he does not have serious organic disease after your examination if such were your findings.
Make positive statements on the history and to the patient about normal findings; do not describe the results as “negative”. Use the positive approach regarding hearing that is still present or can be restored rather than negative emphasis on hearing that has been lost irretrievably. The best medicine for many patients with minimal or irreversible disease is sincere reassurance based on a careful history and thorough examination.
Advise and do for the patient exactly what you would choose for yourself or your family, including adequate but not excessive charges for your services. Free advice is rarely followed, and the patient who receives free medical or surgical treatment often becomes dissatisfied.
Although sometimes due to number of patients and paucity of time it becomes difficult to follow these 6 golden rules but nevertheless if we follow them, patient doctor relationship comes out to be extraordinarily satisfactory.
Doctors’ Day affords an excellent opportunity to further good public relations for the medical profession. Hence, it would be a good idea to mark Doctors’ Day with some type of community service projects and activities. As for instance, organizing AIDS and Cancer awareness programmes, blood donation drives, organ donation awareness, anti-smoking campaigns, and medical aid to senior citizens, among others.
We the doctors, back in our practice will find that vast majority of our patients are satisfied with our treatment are grateful to for the skill with which we look after them or their near and dear ones; and have a great deal of respect and regard for us. There would be many who probably owed their life to our timely and competent treatment.
There is also, of course, a small percentage of disgruntled and dissatisfied patients (for real or imaginary reasons). This holds true for each and every doctor. Sometimes the reasons for dissatisfaction are true. But this gives a skewed image of the medical profession and makes it appear that everything is wrong with the profession. This needs to be corrected and mutual trust need to be resurrected.
I always feel that large majority of patients who were recipient of competent and humane treatment from doctors and they have reason to feel grateful to doctors.
They should stand up and express what they surely feel and can have courage to publicly say – Thank you Doctor (on this special day). It will definitely give positive motivation for the Doctors.
Happy Doctors’ Day!
Thankyou Doctor……
First of July has been designated as Doctors’ Day in India. It happens to be the birthday of a very famous Physician of India, Dr B C Roy. Ironically, he passed away also on July 1, 1962 on his birthday. For Bihari’s it is a matter of pride that he was born on July 1, 1882 at Bankipore, Patna. He dedicated his life to the upliftment of Indian society, especially, the downtrodden. Not only did he excel as a physician, he was an educationist, social reformer, freedom fighter (joined Mahatma Gandhi in the Civil Disobedience movement), leader of Indian National Congress and later became chief minister of West Bengal
It is indeed important that both the doctors and patients be made more aware and conscious of the existence of this day and at the same time, of its relevance and significance in the larger context of healthcare in our country.
Whereas society owes a debt of gratitude to physicians for their contributions in enlarging the reservoir of scientific knowledge, care, support and treatment of patients, increasing the number of scientific tools, and expanding the ability of professionals to use the knowledge and tools effectively in the never ending fight against disease and death. At the same time we can follow following points in dealing with patients in order to improve doctor patient relationship as well as to improve our diagnostic skills:
Never consider the preliminary history and examination of casual importance, but establish and adhere to a routine so that we will not fail to take a complete a history and make a complete clinical examination of every patient.
Never convey to a patient the impression of haste. Avoid unnecessary interruptions. He must feel that his problem is important to us and that our full attention and serious consideration are being concentrated upon it.
Avoid inflicting pain, by gentle manipulation. If momentary pain is unavoidable, warn the patient first, especially a child, who will never forgive or forget if we hurt him/her after promising not to do so.
Never jest with a patient complaining an ailment, nor attempt to belittle his complaints. If he did not regard them seriously he would not be in our clinic. But do not hesitate to reassure him that he does not have serious organic disease after your examination if such were your findings.
Make positive statements on the history and to the patient about normal findings; do not describe the results as “negative”. Use the positive approach regarding hearing that is still present or can be restored rather than negative emphasis on hearing that has been lost irretrievably. The best medicine for many patients with minimal or irreversible disease is sincere reassurance based on a careful history and thorough examination.
Advise and do for the patient exactly what you would choose for yourself or your family, including adequate but not excessive charges for your services. Free advice is rarely followed, and the patient who receives free medical or surgical treatment often becomes dissatisfied.
Although sometimes due to number of patients and paucity of time it becomes difficult to follow these 6 golden rules but nevertheless if we follow them, patient doctor relationship comes out to be extraordinarily satisfactory.
Doctors’ Day affords an excellent opportunity to further good public relations for the medical profession. Hence, it would be a good idea to mark Doctors’ Day with some type of community service projects and activities. As for instance, organizing AIDS and Cancer awareness programmes, blood donation drives, organ donation awareness, anti-smoking campaigns, and medical aid to senior citizens, among others.
We the doctors, back in our practice will find that vast majority of our patients are satisfied with our treatment are grateful to for the skill with which we look after them or their near and dear ones; and have a great deal of respect and regard for us. There would be many who probably owed their life to our timely and competent treatment.
There is also, of course, a small percentage of disgruntled and dissatisfied patients (for real or imaginary reasons). This holds true for each and every doctor. Sometimes the reasons for dissatisfaction are true. But this gives a skewed image of the medical profession and makes it appear that everything is wrong with the profession. This needs to be corrected and mutual trust need to be resurrected.
I always feel that large majority of patients who were recipient of competent and humane treatment from doctors and they have reason to feel grateful to doctors.
They should stand up and express what they surely feel and can have courage to publicly say – Thank you Doctor (on this special day). It will definitely give positive motivation for the Doctors.
Happy Doctors’ Day!
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