Sometimes busy doctors recruit assistants who take the primary patient data and symptoms and transfer the file to the doctor. However, the patients may not have the similar confidence to the assistant as they have to the physician. This problem is more associated with learned urban patients who might have doubt whether the assistants have understood and reported their problems properly.
In such scenario, can you blindly rely on the patient file passed to you by your assistant? What can you do to raise the confidence in your patients?
