5 Star Doctor
ASSIGNMENT 1
5 star doctor.
My personal view about my role, function and duty as a medical doctor is to be a good and better doctor.
What is the meaning of a good doctor? This question is depend on the meaning of the word 'good'. In Oxford Dictionary susprisingly devotes a full page on this word. Thus 'good' means; among other things are, having the right qualities, commendable, morally excellent, virtuous, kind and benevolent, agreeable, amiable, reliable, soundless of judgement and practical wisdom.
For me a good doctor should have the right qualities such as knowledge, emphathy and philosophy.
First a good doctor should be knowledgeable and should always keep abreast of development in her field of expertise. She should be a skillful diagnostician. A good doctor should neither under prescribe or over prescribe medication to her patient as to make her own profit.
Second, a good doctor should has high Emotional Quotient or EQ. That's mean to be a doctor who had warmer personality, be a better listener and communicator beside emphathetic in communication patterns to restore a level of calm and confidence to the patient and make them feel that the doctor is for them.
Third, a good doctor should also be a good philosopher. This means that, the doctor should treat the patients in a holistic way. The holistic way of treating patient is by treat the patient as a whole person instead just physical symptoms which is to counsel the patient on their diet, excersice and stress management instead of just give the patient their medicine.
Fourth, a good doctor should able to be a person who is clear and logical in thinking, work with sincere heart, have skilled with hands for the surgery and easy to reach in case of emergency. The doctor would be humble and confident enough to collaborate with other doctors or senior doctors in medical community to tackle an illness which she is not uncertain about, in order to offer the best practices in management and
5 star doctor.
My personal view about my role, function and duty as a medical doctor is to be a good and better doctor.
What is the meaning of a good doctor? This question is depend on the meaning of the word 'good'. In Oxford Dictionary susprisingly devotes a full page on this word. Thus 'good' means; among other things are, having the right qualities, commendable, morally excellent, virtuous, kind and benevolent, agreeable, amiable, reliable, soundless of judgement and practical wisdom.
For me a good doctor should have the right qualities such as knowledge, emphathy and philosophy.
First a good doctor should be knowledgeable and should always keep abreast of development in her field of expertise. She should be a skillful diagnostician. A good doctor should neither under prescribe or over prescribe medication to her patient as to make her own profit.
Second, a good doctor should has high Emotional Quotient or EQ. That's mean to be a doctor who had warmer personality, be a better listener and communicator beside emphathetic in communication patterns to restore a level of calm and confidence to the patient and make them feel that the doctor is for them.
Third, a good doctor should also be a good philosopher. This means that, the doctor should treat the patients in a holistic way. The holistic way of treating patient is by treat the patient as a whole person instead just physical symptoms which is to counsel the patient on their diet, excersice and stress management instead of just give the patient their medicine.
Fourth, a good doctor should able to be a person who is clear and logical in thinking, work with sincere heart, have skilled with hands for the surgery and easy to reach in case of emergency. The doctor would be humble and confident enough to collaborate with other doctors or senior doctors in medical community to tackle an illness which she is not uncertain about, in order to offer the best practices in management and