Nammude Arogyam May 2018 | Page 79

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Gone are the days of ' doctor knows best.' Right now we are redefining the relationship between doctor and patient, and for a relationship to flourish it reeds to be built on trust, through openness and honesty. So in this book, I ' am opening up, with an intimate and honest account of what ' s going on in one GP ' s mind during a typical day of surgery( if such a thing exists).
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..... the next important piece of the puzzle is an assessment of( the patients) Risk of Serious cardiac disease- I need to give my hunches and theories some background context if I spot something large and cat-like in a game park in Africa, it ' s probably a lion, a cheetah, or maybe African wild cat. But if it ' s in my local park in West London, it ' s just likely to be just a large pussy cat. I need to know what sort of partk we ' re in.
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There are exciting moves to incorporate more humanities into medical education- literature, films, art- to broaden students perspective and to provide a window onto patients experience of illness, for example. There has also been also been a drive to include in clinical exams some sort of assessment of soft skills, such as demonstrating empathy.
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Eastons \ hm-bn- ¡ m ³ \ n §-sf t ]-cn-¸n ¡ p- ¶ H-cp L-S-I-amh-s « CXv!
I sometimes envy the surgeons who go in, take out, or mend bits- and when everything is set up, they have something to show for their work. Offending morsel removed, pain sorted, blockage cleared, signed off with a neat scar. For me, success means no heart attack, no stroke, not developing diabetes. There ' s nothing much to see!
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