The new year started with major amendments in the medical field. So, here’s a list of few things, to be practiced by doctors, will improve the quality of healthcare. The unnecessary pathological or laboratory investigations should be avoided. The government has also urged doctors to prescribe generic medicines. Thus, from this year doctors are supposed to prescribe generic drugs in a legible handwriting.
A transparent billing policy should be followed to avoid incidences like the case of 7-year old who died due to dengue and the hospital raking a huge bill rocked the country last year. This year doctors should be more diligent than being negligent. Antibiotics should be used rationally to avoid the development of antibiotic resistance. A transparency should be maintained in diagnosis and treatment. Following these things will go a long way to mend the breach in doctor-patient…
