Where’s the missing link.
This relation which translates to health care implementation and success needs some attention to work on. To have a fruitful fallout of all the infrastructure and the investments it is mandatory that the patient and the treating doctor should feel being at a comfort zone with each other. Unless there’s mutual trust and an ambience of peace when both the doctor and the patient interact there cannot be any healing impact. The patient’s goal is relief of pain and the doctor’s goal is dedicated service with a hope to be trusted.
There’s no reason to project unholy concepts like doctors are next to God etc. It’s important to realise that a doctor is as much a human-being as any one else.They have just learnt the art of healing the sick with scientific limitations. They themselves are mortals and all their families and friends are as vulnerable. They are as insecure, unsafe and emotionally labile as anyone else. The fact that they choose this profession makes them no different from any other professional. However, the years of devotion, sacrifice and hours of toil that build the foundation of these healers should better not be ignored.
When a self styled monarch from any field of life decides to pounce on a doctor either with blows of words or limbs for the fragility of life then who should be answerable.In our country a class of hooligans smoke, drink and live a unhealthy life and when they reach the hospital bleeding and gasping for breath the helpless doctor on duty is beaten up for his limitations.
The highly skilled and dedicated medical practitioner who earns better sacrificing their own lives are often branded by the society as unethical earners. People envy their lives and some become targets of sarcasm. However, if you choose to go a step ahead and meet a few of the beneficiaries there are often heart touching stories of healing.
Yes, a doctor works through weekends and holidays. They can never stick to strict daily schedules and yet they raise a family and wholeheartedly handle your most valuable possession called life.
Doctors in any sector of work always have the least amount of perks. If one looks at the conveniences that even a senior doctor is legally eligible the count is close to nil. However, if they travel for updating knowledge and skills the common doubt is has he availed any free hospitality. In this highly dynamic field of research unless a doctor upgrades their knowledge then how will they deliver a state of the art skill. If you wish to learn newer concepts and modalities of therapy every doctor should arrange for that financial load themselves. We want our medical service providers to be skilled and upto date but we are not ready to roll out any help. That’s the ground reality.
The greatest hazard of being a doctor today is the lack of trust that the society displays. A class of people come to doctors only to crosscheck what chat GPT or Gemini says. They not only believe that they know more about their disease than the doctor does, they are also not satisfied with the knowledge and skills of any one practitioner. The style of doctor shopping and choosing the most acceptable line of management is very common.
The pleasure of gauging every healer and rebuking their decisions is a hobby of the same section of netizens.
Unless their is a bridge of trust and human emotions between the sick and the healer this relationship is bound to suffer.
Not every person is dying. The ones who move with faith, co operation and compliance are always benefited. Man is mortal there’s no nectar of immortality . The doctor can help you to heal pain or live with less pain. Some diseases are curable and some are controllable. Denial to accept certain situations are the root cause of discord.
In earlier times the knowledge and skills of doctors were far less. The patients still trusted the healer and accepted their limitations. Today expertise is far superior but people have lot of apprehension and mistrust. The result is neither the doctor is safe nor are patients happy. Over time this profession will prove to be most hazardous and frustrating.
Unless, we all accept reality and believe in the genesis and evolution of illness and the process of healing things cannot change. Trust is crucial on both ends of any interaction.
by
Dr Madhumita Priyadarshini Das