Day in and day out I see patients criticising doctors , patients leaving OPDs with a sense of dissatisfaction and distrust , often resulting in multiple doctors being consulted for the same cause and resulting in a cocktail of medication s being consumed by the patient. What may be causing this??
There can be multiple reasons: Increased awareness with increased level of education . Hence the expectation of more to the point explanation of every aspect of the medical condition Contradictory opinion of two different doctors, resulting in confusion and panic for the patient Many doctors trying to overachieve and looking for fancy diseases in every patient often overlooking simple explanations often a problem with new budding clinicians...'House MD' effect is what I call it Patient themselves sometimes do not want to understand their condition, may be its' just beyond their…
