More to communication skills
From Medscape,
Often times, the medical fraternity stresses on a good doctor-patient relationship as an ideal quality. Indeed it is. However, I feel that it is equally important to have a good doctor-doctor communication as well. This less often talked about subject is lacking in many doctors today.
Communicating effectively among doctors is an attribute that defines competence. A short tempered and condescending doctor paints a picture of instability and a lack of self confidence. Our daily practice unfortunately exposes many encounters that often lack civility. Does a grandiose position or degree grants a doctor the right to ridicule another?
Perhaps doctors need more training when it comes to communicating among themselves. Only when this is in order that a good doctor-patient relationship can blossom.
Physicians With Poor Communication Skills Linked With More Patient ComplaintsNeW YORK (Reuters Health) Sept 06 - Physicians who have low scores on assessments of patient-physician communications early in their career are more likely than their peers with higher scores to be reported to medical regulatory authorities, according to a longitudinal study in Canada reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association for September 5th. continuing story |
Communicating effectively among doctors is an attribute that defines competence. A short tempered and condescending doctor paints a picture of instability and a lack of self confidence. Our daily practice unfortunately exposes many encounters that often lack civility. Does a grandiose position or degree grants a doctor the right to ridicule another?
Perhaps doctors need more training when it comes to communicating among themselves. Only when this is in order that a good doctor-patient relationship can blossom.
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I could not agree more with that fantastic and very true article anyway.To be frank with you guys why should it be an eye opener when this should have been part and parcell of medical practice itself.Communication skills has gained enormous importance to the extend that it has been even included as one of testing stations in membership exams(MRCP/MRCPCH).The only reason i could think for such an outrageous move would be that the doctors breeded in this generation have all forgotten about the true essence of talking and communicating to their patients.It has all come down to true office medicine where the patients' complains are addrreseed directly and nothing more exists between the doctor and the patients.Why?Can anyone answer me this.Who should we blame.Is this the fault of the new doctors who are just virgins set loose in the game without proper guidance or just the basis of humanity which has chosen to ignore the fact that communication is such an rewarding process for both the doctors and patients.Or the more simpler and obvious reason is would be that the doctors are now more into seeing more and more patients in a time set that they are left with not more that enough time to nod acknowledge and prescribe before the patient is ushered out of the the consultation room.LEts ponder on this though I am sure many would frown, smile and agree with me because we too have become very much part of this cruel epidemic.
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