The word doctor is derived from the Latin word ‘docere’, which means ‘to teach’. The word docere in medicine practice was first introduced by Cicero in 55 BC. The foremost role of a doctor should be to teach and educate patients about their well-being through truths and facts. It is one of the basic guiding principles of medicine.
Profound and disturbing situation for today’s doctors, who are working under tremendous pressure due to increasing violence against doctors across the country. This sad scenario of doctor-patient relationship reflects poorly upon the state of affairs in the health care delivery mechanism in the country. The societal expectations faced by today’s doctors and the need to address them will become an urgency in not too distant future. In the earlier century, patients used to show highest regards to their treating doctors, and some even considered doctors as next…
