http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/03/30/doctor-im-normal-can-you-help/ Just another blogs.bmj.com weblog Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:35:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/03/30/doctor-im-normal-can-you-help/#comment-100 Karen Newby Thu, 21 May 2009 09:38:10 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/?p=50#comment-100 Oh I love this!! I'm a nurse, and the looks I get, mostly glazed over, when I reply to requests to suggest a "product", cream, lotion, potion, whatever, to apply to a graze or a scratch, that there is no need, as healing will happen regardless...you'd think I was speaking in tongues. Whatever has happened to common sense? Oh yes, I forgot, it's not on the national curriculum. Oh I love this!! I’m a nurse, and the looks I get, mostly glazed over, when I reply to requests to suggest a “product”, cream, lotion, potion, whatever, to apply to a graze or a scratch, that there is no need, as healing will happen regardless…you’d think I was speaking in tongues. Whatever has happened to common sense? Oh yes, I forgot, it’s not on the national curriculum.

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2009/03/30/doctor-im-normal-can-you-help/#comment-76 Dr. Anoop C. Dhamangaonkar Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:58:44 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/?p=50#comment-76 I am pretty pleased to read that the author has touched upon a very common happening in medical practice.I think everyone in todays educated world is aware of the risk factors mentioned above but when the same advice comes from the horse's mouth (the doctor's advice)with a possibility of an adverse severe outcome,the patient definitely a bit closer to accepting and implementing the advice. The other point that I think in day-to-day practice is that whatever advice comes for free, is not valued but when someone pays for the same, however little it may be,the advice is taken better.For instance, how many times has a person listened to one's mom advising not to have too much of rice or junk food? very rarely.But when a dietician dictates the same, look at the outcome. The act of approaching the doctor and paying the professional charges commits the patient to a result-oriented conversation and thats what make sthe difference! The point of people leading a healthy old-age is also mentioned well and should not be overinvestigated. Most of the complaints are psychosomatic in nature, may it be listlessness, weakness, decreased sleep or diffuse aches.What these illnesses need most of the times is 'only a patient hearing' to what the patient wants to say. This alone 'cures' most of the complaints since these complaints are less 'organic' but more 'social' in origin.Hence, this 'patient hearing' will go a long way in giving the aged a 'healthier old age'! I am pretty pleased to read that the author has touched upon a very common happening in medical practice.I think everyone in todays educated world is aware of the risk factors mentioned above but when the same advice comes from the horse’s mouth (the doctor’s advice)with a possibility of an adverse severe outcome,the patient definitely a bit closer to accepting and implementing the advice. The other point that I think in day-to-day practice is that whatever advice comes for free, is not valued but when someone pays for the same, however little it may be,the advice is taken better.For instance, how many times has a person listened to one’s mom advising not to have too much of rice or junk food? very rarely.But when a dietician dictates the same, look at the outcome. The act of approaching the doctor and paying the professional charges commits the patient to a result-oriented conversation and thats what make sthe difference!
The point of people leading a healthy old-age is also mentioned well and should not be overinvestigated. Most of the complaints are psychosomatic in nature, may it be listlessness, weakness, decreased sleep or diffuse aches.What these illnesses need most of the times is ‘only a patient hearing’ to what the patient wants to say. This alone ‘cures’ most of the complaints since these complaints are less ‘organic’ but more ’social’ in origin.Hence, this ‘patient hearing’ will go a long way in giving the aged a ‘healthier old age’!

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