Despite many awareness, despite the AETCOM classes being conducted to train aspiring doctors to treat patients with care still there seems to be a mislead, a miscommunication and a gap that is yet to be bridged.
I have personally seen patients being timid in the outpatient department. Yes, there could be so many reasons. A person’s association with the surrounding is a factor determined by so many external factors and their background. It’s not easy for everyone to overcome their orthodoxical principles and enter an environment especially when they were originally preoccupied with the anxieties about their health.
This is where a doctor’s duty stands out at spotlight. A doctor’s duty is not just about the diagnosis of the abnormal symptoms with which a patient is presented and thereby prescribing the prophylaxis; what’s equally imperative is our ability to address the fretting patient, tending to their worries and help them with handling their primary fear before coming to the secondary ailment.
Patients are also quite alarmed by the certain treatment options for critical cases. Hence, it’s important that we take time to state things clearly which brings the patient under willing cooperation rather than making it a forceful acceptance because an ailment could be cured unless the patient has a belief on it and to bring that trust largely lies on the hands of a doctor.
Hence this lies to be an emotion more than considering it as a profession and comprehending this is tantamount to learning all the diagnosis and clinical aspects. Hence, it’s crucial that what is needed is given more attention.
What are some ways you help the patient feel less stressed and anxious?
MBH/PS