Doctor-patient relationship

motivating that I thought for a while, should I be in the ‘thousands life saver’ group? But that speech alone was not sufficient to grow my interest in public health. Day by day I was feeling the importance of public health while dealing with various patients as a clinician. During my Intern period at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, I exposed with diverse type of diseases and comprehended that to explore the depth of the medicine, there is no alternative…

“Noncompliance is major health problem accounting for 10% of all hospital stays and causes about 125,000 deaths per year” (Stelmach, 2015). As health care providers we run into troublesome patients all time in our different clinical areas. As a nurse, I have seen and continue to receive long lists of the same non-compliant patients come through our unit because they did not taking their blood pressure medicines and now in hypertensive crisis, or did not show up for hemodialysis now overloaded…

offers the full story or at least the part of the story needed to treat that patient. Who is better to give the narrative of your life than you? One cannot deny that the narrative of the individual is important, however, it offers rooms for error. This could result from patients simply being insincere to their physicians or not remembering clearly. However, physicians have to rely heavily on the narrative of their patients as it is the best way to fully understand the illness, the symptoms and…

documentary titled “Extremis” on Netflix. This documentary took a close look at patients in the ICU and the decisions surrounding their care when their prognosis is not good. In total I spent about two hours completing my learning opportunity and the reflection assignment. I chose to review this film because the description looked interesting. It also relates closely to an experience I had at clinical when caring for a patient who was very sick and being transferred to hospice care. In this…

The main topic of this movie, "first Do No Harm" was that the doctor should always put the patient first and have their best interest. This applies whether the solution be, using drugs and surgeries, or trying other things to keep them more safe. Sometimes the drugs can do more harm than help, and in Robbie's case, the harm came into play. Robbie was having seizures, which means something was going on, incorrectly, in the brain (which is part of the nervous system). The brain was sending…

Some of the causes why nursing is considered as a stressful job are: it involves patient lives and personalities, dealing with patient’s medication, and carrying out doctor’s order. To begin with, one of the causes that make nursing stressful is it involves patient lives and personalities. For example, difficult patients…

This issue includes an On Being a Doctor essay, titled “Our Family Secrets,” that we think, and hope, will make readers' stomachs churn (1). In this essay, the author describes teaching a medical humanities course to senior medical students and asking, “Do any of you have someone to forgive from your clinical experiences? Did anything ever happen that you need to forgive or perhaps still can't forgive?” One of the students— clearly distraught—recounts lacking the courage to object to a surgeon's…

wondered if the taught the humanity out of doctors. It would be nice as a patient to be treated as a whole person, not just a broken body or mind. I think Patch Adams had a great view on treating a patient as a whole being, getting the community and families to help, and also solidary. First, treating a patient as a whole person and not just an illness. It is said laughter is the best medicine. It has long lasting effects and no side effects. The idea for most doctors is to treat an illness…

incorrectly. They were also instructed not to stop shocking, despite the pleas from the other volunteer. Milgram believed that the purpose of this experiment was to understand the concept of obedience, as the actors in the experiment were dressed up as doctors in…

Communication. There is a lack of communication between the doctor, patient, nurses, and scheduler. This is an area the staff really struggles with in the Radiology department. The doctor’s nurse will call over to schedule a CT or MRI, the preauthorization that is required will not be done yet and the examination gets scheduled. The nurse states that the preauthorization is getting worked on it and then it will be faxed over. When the patient gets to the department there isn't a preauthorization…