Message to patients all over the world
After having a discussion with angrydr at his blog, I decided to post this message to patients all over the world.
If you find that you like your doctor because he always tells you the things you expected and wanted to hear and gives you the things you expect and want all the time, it's more likely that he's NOT a good doctor. A good doctor should be disagreeing and lecturing you from time to time.
The problem is that patients judge their doctors using extremely flawed methods.
Dr Harold Shipman who killed 260 of his patients was said to be an excellent doctor and man. Many of his patients were shocked that he was a murderer.
So be careful what you wish for.
From
Profile of Harold Shipman: The killer doctor
"How could a GP who was trusted and respected by more than 3,000 patients also be a killer who struck time after time with no obvious motive?"
"Hard-working GP
Sometime later in 1977, Shipman re-emerged as a GP in Hyde. His new colleagues respected his work, although some felt he could be arrogant and patronising towards his patients. "
posted by Dr Oz bloke @ 8:15 PM
7 Comments:
"I've listened to the interviews, and he certainly wanted to control and dominate the interview and the officers, at times belittling them. He was treating this as some sort of game, a competition, pitting his, what he considered to be his superior intellect, to those of the officers who were interviewing him."
Hmm... sounds like a basis for a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, or judging from the file photo, maybe Donald Sutherland.
That reminds me: I once had a HOD who said: 'A good doctor will always get complaint letters; if you don't get complaint letters, you are not doing your job right.'
'A good doctor will always get complaint letters; if you don't get complaint letters, you are not doing your job right.'
haha that is an interesting quote except you might get your hands tied by the admin and in no time you might not be receiving any complaints anymore. :)
Even funnier is this:
One time a patient was pissed at this same HOD and said:" I want to see your Head to complain about you."
HOD:" Er... I AM the Head."
Which is why you have the admin!
The admin are the defacto heads of the heads! And the head of the admin heads answers eventually to the Minister of Health who then answers to the Prime Minister who answers to NO ONE, not even voters!
Get the picture? *wink*
"The admin are the defacto heads of the heads! And the head of the admin heads answers eventually to the Minister of Health who then answers to the Prime Minister who answers to NO ONE, not even voters!"
Another innuendo. Do you know something we don't?
Docs. who are arrogant and considers themselves a gift to mankind and who disagrees and/or makes life difficult for patients CONSISTENTLY are living in the twilight zone and if they are running their own practice are literally digging their own grave.
Docs. in public service trying to be funny will find themselves having to hunt for a dingy HDB shop to sell snake oil to the unsuspecting ah pek and ah ma.
You are contradicting yourself. You advocate docs to be good salesmen and yet now you say that such people are not good docs. Which is which? And you have practised what you preached. So are you a good doc. or not?
The killer doc. you cited is an aberration. There are also depraved human beings amongst the population of so-called good docs. described by you.
"You advocate docs to be good salesmen and yet now you say that such people are not good docs. Which is which? And you have practised what you preached. So are you a good doc. or not?"
Whether a good salesman is a good person or not depends on what he sells and to whom he sells.
I advocate that all doctors should have good sales experience and techniques. Sell comes from the norweigian word "sel" for service. So sales people are just ones who give service to assist the buyer to purchase what he wants or needs.
That doesn't make you a good or bad person/doctor.
But consider this. A salesman sells a Nintendo gameboy to a blind man. Now that salesman is not doing sales. That's swindling. The blind man doesn't need a gameboy and the salesman probably knows it. If you understand sales, there are various ways to make a sale. And sometimes doctors need to get patients to buy something that they don't want but that they need. Hence good sales skills are essential.
What I am personally confused is that patients tend to judge a doctor whether they are good or not based on whether they are nice charming salesmen selling them only what they WANT.
If you know the patient NEEDS to buy something else but because he/she doesn't want to buy it and thus sell him/her what he/she WANTS...then you're not a good doctor.
It isn't decided solely on you sales skills.
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