The Role Of Trust In The Medical Field To be a doctor one needs years in the university and hospital to get sufficient knowledge and experience to handle various medical situations, but as a job that requires interaction with patients, one also needs to build up trust in the work in order to perform effective treatments. In the books Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest Of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World, Harriet McBryde Johnson’s Too Late To Die Young: Nearly True Tales From A Life, and Atul Gawande’s Better: A Surgeon’s Note On Performance, three authors all explore how trust plays a role in the medical treatment. In fact, I believe it’s important to make the patients trust the doctors on both medical
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Comparing with the week-long treatment in Tucson hospital, working with the medical workers who know her physical condition well makes her therapy process smoothly: “Charleston’s orthopods order more X rays and decides I can try to move my shoulder…A day later I am back home…A week later I am back in a power chair...” (p.200). It makes me, probably a future healthcare worker, consider about the reasons that make my patients trust me. Johnson’s example clearly shows that regardless of the medical level, patients care more about whether a doctor understand their physical conditions well and prefer to choose the one that familiar with their medical history: it requires great interpersonal skills that can make the patients willing to talk about every related disease history to him or her. And in the book Better: A Surgeon’ s Notes On Performance, Gawande points out that “when the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average” (p.230). Cruel but true, while we hope the number doesn’t define a person; cure rate of the doctor is the most basic standard to determine whether or not the patients will trust him or her. It’s required for every medical worker to devote the professional knowledge to the patients and fight for the best outcome for the patients. Moreover, in order to gain the trust from the patients, we must make them understand what we are doing in the treatment. Specifically, as a doctor informs the treatment to patients, he or she need to explain how the treatment work, probably from the functions of the medicines to changing amount of the medicine consuming. But in a large extent, while some people think building the trust is the personal action of a
Comparing with the week-long treatment in Tucson hospital, working with the medical workers who know her physical condition well makes her therapy process smoothly: “Charleston’s orthopods order more X rays and decides I can try to move my shoulder…A day later I am back home…A week later I am back in a power chair...” (p.200). It makes me, probably a future healthcare worker, consider about the reasons that make my patients trust me. Johnson’s example clearly shows that regardless of the medical level, patients care more about whether a doctor understand their physical conditions well and prefer to choose the one that familiar with their medical history: it requires great interpersonal skills that can make the patients willing to talk about every related disease history to him or her. And in the book Better: A Surgeon’ s Notes On Performance, Gawande points out that “when the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average” (p.230). Cruel but true, while we hope the number doesn’t define a person; cure rate of the doctor is the most basic standard to determine whether or not the patients will trust him or her. It’s required for every medical worker to devote the professional knowledge to the patients and fight for the best outcome for the patients. Moreover, in order to gain the trust from the patients, we must make them understand what we are doing in the treatment. Specifically, as a doctor informs the treatment to patients, he or she need to explain how the treatment work, probably from the functions of the medicines to changing amount of the medicine consuming. But in a large extent, while some people think building the trust is the personal action of a