9.3 How do I get the patients to co-operate
with me during ward work and clinical examinations?
You must like and respect them .
Do not treat them as objects and apper only to be interested in the interesting
signs that they have. Establish rapport and ask about their illness.
To some senior citizens, asking
about their grandchildren does make them happy and they will feel that are
interested in them as a person. Explain to them the importance of you getting
signs and emphasise to them that they will get the blessing from God when they
co-operate with you as it helps you to learn. They help you to become a good
doctor so that you can help others in future.
Practising medicine is not only
about being academically qualified, but also involves personal grooming and
personality development. Personal manners are something that will carry you far
in life. Whenever someone meets you for
the forst time, be it your patient, lecturer or friend, it is your manners and
etiquette that will give an impression to him or her.
Good manners will draw people to
like you and you will get all the co-operation that you need. It is important
to know what to say, when to say and how to say it. This crucial when is
clerking a patient.
Talking to an elderly person will
be different from talking to a child. The awareness of patient’s diagnosis will
help. A patient with cancer of course may not be as cooperative as someone with
a simple treatable illness.
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