Ignorance In The Medical Field

There have been some cases where people surprisingly find themselves in the last stadium of a deadly illness. This happens because there are still many people who are not aware of the importance of seeing a doctor when they have medical problems. Sufficient number of health workers as a means of medical consultation becomes useless when someone who has the disease still consider the illness suffered is a mild problem. Causes of patient ignorance to go to the doctor may be due to financial reason, the distance, feel quite satisfied get the disease information via internet, etc.
The first reason people not go to the doctor when they have medical problems is financial reason. Perhaps for a family of upscale economies, visiting a doctor even if only a consultation or routine check-up is not a burden. But this will be different if someone comes from a middle-low economic family. They have priority. Perhaps for them food, have shelter, clothing, and education a priority than health. So if the needs of the health have not been achieved, for example when they are sick, as long as the disease they think is not a deadly disease, they will not care.
The second reason is access distance to the hospital or other health …show more content…
As we know in this era there are many smartphones that facilitated with internet so that people can access anything they want to know. It can be used as for example when they are sick. Actually they know that they have to go to a health facility to get treatment. But they want to find out first about the illness they suffered through the internet. This makes a person feel satisfied enough after get information only from the internet and finally discouraged to find a medical treatment to the doctor. Whereas doctors opinion with the internet is very different. We do not know whether the information from the internet is valid or not and has an evidence based or