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A doctor’s profession is highly respected. It is not the money, the fee that connects a doctor and a patient. Actually, it is much more. Even though the medical profession seems to be commercialised now and is run as a business, it is a dedicated, noble, salutary profession which is always respected with eternal gratitude. The dignity of the profession serving humanity beyond the limits of religion, race, nationality and social factors is usually treasured forever.

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A doctor needs qualification, skill, experience, medicines and other facilities to cure one but it can be complete in no way without the patient’s cooperation. A doctor needs to care for the physical as well as the person’s mental symptoms to cure completely.

Cure and comfort feeling (well-being sensation) can be felt only by the patient and cannot be examined or diagnosed by a doctor or lab findings. So, patients should explain in a proper way their complaint to the doctor to work out a healthier tomorrow. They must also be aware that the “best of all the medicines” is rest, sleep, water and diet. Without this, in no way will treatment be helpful.

Helping Doctor - i.e. helping in finding the cause of the disease, diagnosing, prognosis, assessing and achieving the treatment plan, analysing the process and progress, etc. will help one get rid of their suffering safely, quickly and easily. So help the doctor to help you to restore and rejuvenate your life and joy.

The following points should be considered for helping doctor to help you:

• Caring equals curing – Care should be taken for each and every presentation of complaint. Complaints usually tend to prolong and get complicated if they are not show adequate care.

• Don’t complicate the disease by self medication –Consult a doctor foryou’re your complaints. Don’t take or add any medicine, even supplements, without the knowledge of the doctor, since it may cause interactions or side-effects which endanger life sometimes.

• Start treatment as early as possible to get cured completely & easily – It is better to start treatment at the earliest, so that the disease will not go deep or won’t get complicated. Patients should be aware that treating in the initial period always helps easy cure.

When you meet the doctor – 

• Go with appointment to get time to discuss your entire problem

• Go with your entire case history and all reports

• Don’t be anxious or tensed or hurried – Rule out all the fears - Be relaxed (BP can rise and give false projection during examination and lead to false diagnosis)

• Prepare yourself a note of all the symptoms so that nothing will be missed out during the discussion

• Speak and listen well

• Inform the main problem first and then explain in detail everything from the beginning

• Narrate your complaints as they are – Don’t state your own diagnosis with your expert (?) knowledge guided by the media, since your words can also misguide the doctor’s diagnosis. Be aware that diagnosis of the doctor totally depends on your words or narration (of course, investigation too, but it comes later). It is better to go to the doctor with your spouse or mother, since their words can also help in the diagnosis.

• Inform everything about yourself, i.e. your nature, your job, your tensions, your diet, your habits (smoking, drinking, drugs, etc), your exercise (sometimes strained exercise can also be a cause of complaint), your allergic tendencies, your other sufferings, various treatments and medications you had, your family/sibling’s sufferings, etc. Also inform any changes in appetite, thirst, urine, stool, sleep, menses, etc. 

• Don’t hide anything from your doctor because fooling your doctor is like fooling yourself. People usually hide their private part complaints since they won’t wish to get examined. Mostly this will create an embarrassing situation later with more suffering. 

• Don’t hide your habits too (smoking, drinking, drugs, etc). No one should feel ashamed to reveal everything to the doctor.

• Don’t split your body into parts and don’t wish to go for treatment for the parts with experts. Be aware that two complaints may be interconnected or interrelated and need to be treated as a whole. For example – scabies is a skin disorder where you can note the skin eruptions and boils in the web of fingers. If you delay the treatment or get maltreatment, then it goes inwards to attack the kidney where you can note puffiness of face and body. Here you should not treat this skin eruptions and kidney involvement separately, but as a whole for scabies.

While investigating the disease 

• Do all the investigations as recommended by the doctor

• Don’t postpone or neglect the investigations 

• The tests should be done in quality lab as required and as prescribed i.e. in fasting, after food, early morning, during fever (for malaria), etc. since treatment plan depends on the report

While getting prescribed

• Don’t tell complaints one by one or one after another, after getting the prescription or ask for separate prescription or additional medicines for additional complaints. 

After getting prescribed

• Follow each and every advice of your physician

• Stop smoking, drinking and doing drugs – surely this will help 

• Take prescribed medicines as prescribed by the physician – you should not alter (increase or decrease) the dosage

• Finish the course of medication as prescribed by the physician – you should not stop medications half-way since it might make all your efforts go in vain. Also be aware that unless you complete the course, the disease will recur. For easy understanding, you can compare this with riding or racing a car (man) in a hill against the gravitational force (disease force) to the surface (cure state). When there is enough speed (effective treatment) with good control (following advice) it will climb up soon. If you happen to stop in the middle (leaving treatment half-way) or even near the end point without proper finish, it will surely let you down to the bottom (disease stage) again. So follow-up and continuous treatment till you get better altogether is as important as starting effective treatment.

After finishing the course or during follow-up 

• Review appropriately at stipulated time

• Don’t keep on continuing with the same drugs without follow-up and getting further advice. This will often cause drug induced complications.
  Inform your inference correctly after taking medicines and as it is so that doctor can guide/help you accordingly for further course of medicines, if required.

• Don’t wish to please the doctor by informing partial or slight improvement where actually there is no improvement at all

• Don’t neglect the suffering by getting accustomed to it – since it will lead to complications later on

• Don’t hide the improvement for getting more powerful drugs

• Don’t exaggerate the complaints – don’t blow it out of proportion

• Don’t pose as if in a bad condition to draw more attention – since it will often misguide the doctor and lead you to different type of treatment rather than for the real complaint

Out of all, patient needs patience – Nowadays people are in a hurry and restless with suffering. If they are not satisfied with the result of that day’s medicines, they switch over to highly qualified and specialist doctors for proper diagnosis. This attitude will often misguide the patient to adopt wrong treatment. Patients should be aware that each disease takes its own time to show its face. For ex – typhoid takes 5 days to show its presence in blood test, malaria can be diagnosed only with its regularity in recurrence and testing while having fever. Likewise, each and every disease has its own period with all its symptoms. So, one has to wait for the disease to set in. 

Second opinion or expert opinion - It is better to go to a physician first and then to a surgeon with referral, if required. Physician – your doctor will surely refer to the right specialist or seek right information when required, if he suspects something serious. The patient has the right to go for second opinion or specialist opinion. Definitely, this will provide a different platform for diagnosing the complaint from a different angle. Even while going for second opinion, narrate your actual complaints and not your diagnosis (of your own or of the primary doctor’s) since it may prejudice the second doctor. Anyway, finally analyse every diagnosis with the primary doctor, instead of simply adding medicines from the second one. 

If one cooperates with the doctor in all ways as mentioned above, the doctor will in no way ever let you down and will also help make a healthier tomorrow for you.

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Published on March 13^th, 2006