Hello everyone! I’m Dr. Deepika Bishnoi (MBBS, MD Community Medicine) Public Health Professional, Research Educator, and MedBound Course Lead, where I conduct courses and mentor learners through Clinical Research, Journal Club, and Competency & Career Development (CCD) initiatives.
This space is for open discussions, exchanging ideas, and learning from each other’s experiences.
Today’s Discussion:
What is one healthcare problem you observe every day that deserves more attention?
It could be patient adherence, lifestyle diseases, misinformation, mental health, antibiotic misuse, preventive healthcare, or something you notice during your studies, internships, clinics, or community postings.
Sometimes, the best research questions begin with a simple observation.
Share your thoughts in the comments and let’s discuss.
Patient adherence -patients don’t quite understand the need for regular follow ups in chronic diseases even when they don’t have symptoms or they are ‘feeling good.’
Today, we can realise the drastic increase in multiple health issues in every age group. Most common among them are oxidative stress, metabolic diseases, hypertension and cancer.
The most concerning factor is our lifestyle and fastfood.
Previously, people use to had heavy and full diet and worked whole day. As a result their metabolism was fast. Even the food was organic. But nowadays, we prefer fast food and inadequate diet as a result the metabolic activities had been reduced. Thus resulting in chronic health issues.
It certainly is misuse of antibiotics.People now a days takes antibiotics on their own which is certainly going to cause resistance in future but the awareness about this antibiotic resistance is so less that people end up eating antibiotics for even small discomfort also.
In today’s world of evidence based medicine clinicians are prescribing unwanted lab tests and scans. This should be minimised and investigations performed only when necessary.
As a dental student, I see one problem is that people take too lightly their oral health until they started feeling pain, discomfort while eating, talking. Once they are educated about oral health , they started taking care of their health. So when I was posted in department of periodontitis, I noticed this pattern and I wanted to know about the stats and I conducted a KAP study to know about periodontal health and it’s awareness.
Lately the most common problem from patients side is immediately Google or AI use for symptoms and getting treatment options. In healthcare each individual with a group of symptoms represents diagnosis of disease which is done by doctor with detailed case history and examination. Many patients feel Google or AI had different diagnosis than the doctor and unwanted doubt doctor.
Valid point, but do you think it’s possible to go back to the old lifestyle in today’s fast paced world where the competition exists everywhere in any field or even school these days… Although some aspects could be worked upon.. if you can elaborate on those?
With so much competition and this profession becoming a hospitality/service industry rather than a moral one.. if one doesn’t take this route they are left with the double burden of education loans and a family dependent on them.. just giving another perspective.. in no way do i support unnecessary lab tests and extensive investigation and medications for profiting.
I think the best way is to stop antibiotic purchase without prescription.I think this will reduce the availability to common man without proper prescription.
Yes. We have to guide the patients that AI or Google can never replace doctors and those platforms give generalized answers which differ after history taking and examination personally by doctor.
Today’s Discussion:
Share your thoughts in the comments and let’s discuss.