Have you ever been to a doctor, taken the prescription home, but never filled it because you had objections to the medicines? Sometimes the medicines are too expensive; sometimes what you read on the Internet leaves you feeling unsure of what they would do to you. A physician I’ve been going to for years told me about how he used to have a patient whom he treated for a terrible problem with spontaneous bleeding. One day, when he didn’t turn up for his appointment, the doctor called him up at home and found that he had died from spontaneous bleeding. The physician felt like a failure. If he was treating him, and if he died of the very same disease, didn’t mean that the physician did not do a good job? It seemed to make sense this way and not at the same time; so he visited the family of the patient to dig deeper.
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Patients Not Following Doctor Advice
Monday, September 6th, 2010Eye Surgeons Online Videos
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
photo credit: Sean Loyless
Possessing a skill, a talent, is a wonderful thing. Finding a way to make your talent work for you is another thing altogether. You would think that doctors and surgeons, of all people, would never have to worry about getting a steady gig, being in demand. We keep hearing about how the doctors in this country are just swamped with patients. That is really true of doctors at hospitals where insurance cover pays for treatment; it is less true of elective treatment – laser eye surgery, Botox and the like. Eye surgeons for instance, need to work hard on getting the word-of-mouth going in all the traditional ways, on their expertise and their skill if they want to keep their business afloat. (more…)
