In today’s article I am going to discuss with you a practically important aspect of pathology work and that is: Improvement of Doctor – Patient relationship. An ideal relationship between path lab and patient should be one of total trust, satisfaction and gratitude from both sides. But is this the picture we see nowadays? We see path labs giving fake reports, we see patients hiding information from path labs , we see path labs behaving in a mechanical fashion with patients and we see patients duping pathology lab of their well deserved fees. What has given rise to such an unwanted situation ?

Frankly, both patients and path lab staff are to be blamed for this. There are certain duties which patients and path lab staff have towards each other and some rights which they should enjoy. Let us see what these are. [ A ] DUTIES OF PATIENTS TOWARDS PATHOLOGY LAB : 1. Once an appointment is…