what does it take to provide proper care to indigent patients?
attitude, attitude and more attitude.
lack of a caring attitude among the consultants, residents, servants is the most important reason for dissatisfaction among patients.
we seem to be forgetting that the establishment is for the benefit of the patient.
standards are for writing in a book or pasted on the wall, not to be followed.
the hospital spends crores of rupees on installing new diagnostic equipment but can not have three functioning diathermies with all accessories.
the hospital holds a seminar on surgical site infection where all professors talk but it does not have proper facilities to sterilize diathermy wires.
after the first series of procedures, patients are operated upon with boiled instruments.
it is not possible to find one person in the operation theatre who is wearing a proper cap, mask and gown.
why have doctors become so careless, so callous? it starts in the brain. the brain has to be callussed, then the hands will be calussed.