I have seen in my experience of clinical practice that in most cases when a patient is cured under my treatment, he never reports back even after a request from doctor’s side to let him know the progress of recovery. Patient only reports back or follow-up only when there is no complete remission of the illness. I believe as follow-up is an essential part of patient compliance. Feedback of successful treatment from patient is equally important. A doctor often tries out different treatment approach depending upon the individual patient and it is very important to know the success of that experiment to implement it in similar cases.
However, due to the above mentioned practice of the patient, this information is lost and cannot be propagated further. Do you experience the same in your practice? Do you agree that patient should report back even if he/she is cured? How can we make the…
