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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The concept of family physicians should be brought back so that there is an enduring relationship between a doctor and his patient, based on mutual trust, confidence and understanding. Increasing reliance on super-specialities has not only pushed up the cost of healthcare delivery but also resulted in patients looking at every doctor with suspicion, it was pointed out at a discussion on `Doctor-patient relationship today'. The discussion was organised by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the Consumer Vigilance Centre (CVC) here on Sunday.
Violence against doctors
Doctors who participated in the discussion pointed out that increasing incidence of violence and organised attacks against doctors had seriously dented the confidence of the medical fraternity. Consumers on the other hand, pointed out that patients' right to information was often denied and that the question of `informed consent' did not always work out. R. Ramesh, State Secretary of IMA, pointed out that human body was an unpredictable entity and that for the same disease different patients might require different treatment modalities. Every procedure had its own "accepted complications". No doctor would deliberately harm his patients but patients were all too willing to accuse the doctors of negligence, he added. Doctors also expressed strong resentment over the fact that in all cases of hospital deaths, cases of wilful negligence under Section 304 A of the IPC were being framed against the doctor. R. Vijayarajan, former president of the State Consumer Coordination Council, pointed out that though in the early days, a large number of cases of medical negligence were filed against doctors, this had been coming down in recent times. He said that there were a few cases in which doctors were actually found negligent.
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