Doctor’s Domains and Perceptions

In the professional domains of a doctor the patient is of pivotal importance. No doctor is worth the name if his patients concerns and expectations are not his prime concern and preoccupation too. A doctor, in the widest sense, aught to be totally committed to address the mental as well as the physical discomfort and distress of his patient as fast, as best, and as compassionately as possible.
In order to be a doctor with “head and heart “one has to endeavor with dedication to encourage growth of a congenial mindset for the development of sublime human qualities as early as possible and further them during the course of one’s medical education and training. As a junior medical graduate one has to learn to try to fathom individual patient’s distress, anxiety, apprehension, depression and so on resulting from the disease state with empathy and care so as to deal with them adequately and compassionately.
But the root problem with the beginners frequently is the failure on their part even to think rationally in favor of a clinical or provisional diagnosis in the first place let alone arrive at a confident probable diagnosis at the end of a clinical work up. This appalling clinical incompetence is the direct consequence of the prevailing apathy towards seriously learning clinical methods by the bedside right from the 3rd year to 5th year clinical classes almost as a “suicidal tradition” that has taken deep root into the psyche of our students inexplicably, and which so far has proven difficult to uproot despite massive failures in the final professional MBBS examination because of the very same clinical inaptitude.