Article on KYP: "KYP" is "Know Your Patient" ... To be humane is the first requisite for any human interaction ... family, social, business or medical. Ever talked and consoled a patient whose wound-dressing you are changing, rather than focusing on the bandage in hand? Ever pacified a patient before administering an injection ... or did you just shove it in and massaged him and told him to go away? Ever apologized to a patient in your clinic for keeping him waiting beyond the appointment time?
Ever got up from your chair, walked around the table and patted him on his back for his adherence and good lab results? Ever spent 1/2 an hour explaining things to a patient or his/her relatives? I am sure the answers to all the above will be a reluctant NO in most cases. So you all constitute the majority ... therefore, in a country of democracy, the presumption is that you are all right. I…
