It must have happened to you many times that an anxious parent came to your clinic for follow up with his daughter suffering from fever and telling “Doctor it has been two days she is suffering from fever. Why are you not giving her some STRONGER antibiotic that acts FAST and heal her fever?” Even she has a sore throat. “What’s the need for swab test? It’s must be a strep throat.
Give some antibiotics.“ And Finally, the parent leave with a prescription of antibiotic in hand. That is how the doctor often fails to convince the patient and get dominated regarding treatment. The number of patients demanding a fast relief from their disease and dictating the course of their treatment has increased in numbers in recent times. There can be several reasons for that such as increasing patient education, easy access to information (?) over the internet, increasing medicolegal knowledge of patient…
