Patient education for improved understanding of the medical condition, diagnosis, disease, or disability and for improved understanding of methods and means to manage multiple aspects of those conditions, is being an essential part of the modern healthcare system. This patient-centered care is going to benefit both patient and healthcare professionals. Why is patient education necessary? To understand the depth of the topic, let us start with a real-life incident that happened in a clinic.
A patient was detected with acute vaginal infection, and the physician prescribed her with a very common metronidazole tablet of a well-known brand name. It put the patient and her husband, who was accompanying her in the clinic, in a real dilemma. The reason was that the medicine given by the doctor was quite known to her, and she had consumed it many times to heal common diarrheal symptoms by…
