The word doctor is derived from 'docere' meaning 'teacher'. It definitely carries lot of inner meaning. As William Osler rightly said a good doctor treats diseases but a great doctor treats the person with disease. It's a million dollar concept which the young generation should learn and practice.In this digital health revolution we as doctors are becoming more and more mechanic than acquiring the wisdom to treat the persons as humans. Colour of life of each human is different though we all have the same sense organs.
So recognising the colour of life of a particular person coming to you with disease is very important in making a choice of therapy. To find out this uniqueness of each person is the determinant of outcome. The medical text book teaches you to go by Occam' s Razor which may not be right in a particular case. So its not the number of patients you see/ day or money you make…
