One of the commonest complaints patients have about doctors is that they’ve become very commercial. They feel doctors no longer provide any personalised care, and that they are really not interested in the patient, or the emotional trauma which they are going through. They feel that doctors just look at patients as sources of revenue, and all they want to do is do procedures and tests and treatments in order to extract money from them. I think this is sad because it obviously creates a rift between patient and doctor.
It's important that the patient be able to trust that her doctor is doing what is in her best interests, otherwise it becomes very hard to move forward. Today, patients take a very jaundiced view of the medical profession as a whole. It’s partly doctors who are to blame for this , because we don’t spend enough time in educating patients about what their problems are ,…
