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Growing unethical practices in Health Sector root cause of public anger against medicos!

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Dr. Sanjay Kumar Bhasin




Causes of Increased Violence against Doctors:

• Lack of supervision on Corporate Hospitals to curtail Profit Driven Attitude.

• Lack of trusts in Doctors and Hospitals due to Induced Demands and High Medical Fees.

Solutions:
• Doctors should show empathy towards patients/relatives with regular Introspections. Regular CMEs and credit courses on improving doctor-patient relationships.
• Communication is the key factor and Patient's relatives should be kept in loop from the beginning telling them truth about adverse affects.
• Given option for second or alternate treatment.
• Meticulous Record keeping by the Resident Doctors and regular monitoring by the seniors.
• PGs/Residents, new recruits must undergo pre-placement and periodic appropriate training regarding the risk factors for violence in the health care , skills in aggressive behaviour identification and management by showing recorded of actual incidents and mock drills.
• Streamline processes in hospitals and other healthcare delivery centres by way of written workplace violence prevention policy and implementation.
• Employees' involvement in policy development, preferably joint management-service providers violence prevention committees.
• Immediate post assault counselling and debriefing.
Conclusion: Ever since the medical profession was brought under the ambit of Consumer Law, technically profession ceased to be ‘noble'. This further led to profession's commercialisation leading to Mushrooming of Corporate Health Sector, Inducements, and Deteriorating Ethics/Interpersonal Relations. Fuel to the fire was added by Lack of Drug Policy, Bureaucratico-political influences/activism/over activism, Low Pay/Perk of government doctors and Lack of Media Support (Negative Journalism). Greed has been thrusted and violence is the outcome. The medical journal Lancet observed few years back, “We must protect patients but we must also find better ways to protect professional. If we do not, medical progress will cease, particularly in controversial and distressing area”. Let us all not compel doctors to completely distance themselves from the ‘Hippocratic Oath'. Stop both violence & labelling doctors as greedy, if existence of God cannot be erased substitution of a doctor cannot be found till mankind survives on the earth.
The Writer is Senior Surgeon, Social Activist, Columnist & Hony Secretray JAKASI

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