One experience this whole last year that had stayed with me has been of doctors. They are life-givers and they have had the most impactful role along with other healthcare professionals during the last two years. Now more than ever our doctors would have faced the most agonizing decisions with beds running out, a pandemic, and innumerable lives to be saved. Most of the time the doctors have to be a scientist and humanitarians, the most difficult being taking decisions in the field of human relations.
My interactions with doctors made me relook at the profession with new insights and below listed are the ten commandments that definitely helped me look at them differently.
- The profession demands empathy with the patients and understanding of their pain and working towards a solution.
- A doctor who could bring a smile to your face while you are wondering what’s next waiting in the surgery room is priceless or telling you to get a tattoo done for your new surgery mark and look cool again can be reassuring.
- They are by temperament phlegmatic and patient and that goes a long way in resolving patient anxiety.
- The cliché about Drs scribbling on the prescription in a handwriting which could only be uncoded by the experienced compounder has also changed thanks to computers! That’s a big problem solved!
- A doctor who can explain in layman’s terms is important since a lot of people might be coming from different backgrounds.
- Doctors need to be good with drawings something I discovered when all the surgeries that took place they sketched out the body part and explained what would take place.
- They have to take split second decisions and where there is risk there is each time a doctor that takes responsibility for that risk.
- They definitely have to be good with the math’s otherwise the math’s with skewed up patients would be nothing short of horrifying.
- In all of this they are as much humans as you and me realize .They are objective, logical and most certainly have a beating heart!
- Its hope that makes this calm doctor next to god and faith that leads to quick recovery.
Having interacted with all kinds of doctors including a quack I realized how demanding and tough the profession can be where one has to be abreast of technology ,research findings, new medicines, new methods of treatment etc . It’s a lifelong journey of learning and of studying hard while you can say trust me I am your doctor. “In the end a good doctor treats the disease the great doctor treats the patient “
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