8. Medicine is a way of life
Only a good man can be a great doctor
Carl hermann nothangle
9. Medicine as an enterprise
Do not approach the temple of science
with the soul of a money changer
Thomas browes
10. The last consult of the day
It may be your n th patient but for the
patient it may be the first doctor visit
of the day
Be extra considerate and curb your
impatience
11. Curb your impatience
A customer(patient) is the most
important visitor on our premises.he
is not dependent on us.we are
dependent on him.he is not an
interruption of our work.he is
purpose of it.we are not doing him a
favour by serving him.he is doing us
a favour by giving us the opportunity
to do so. M K GANDHI
12. Consulting for less privileged
people
Go out of the way to make them
comfortable
Be extra polite to people who come
from a station of life lower than your
own
13. Mundane for you -important for
the patient
. Diet/exercise/other system of
medicine.common questions should
be addressed.improve patient
satisfaction.
.Do not be make fun of patients beliefs
.Do not be derisive of other systems
14. Behaviour towards juniors
. Good decisions come from
experience
.And experience comes from bad
decisions
Guide them
15. oneupmanship
.Death knell for a doctor
.Do not run down colleagues
.Never ever say'you have been treated
wrongly' be circumspect.
.All doctors try to do the best
.Things evolve.physical findings
changes/appear.Hindsight is better
than foresight
16. Making of a diagnosis
Historty
Examination
invesigation
17. Components of a consult
1.listen to the patient
2.examine the patient
3.look at the investigations
4.speak to the patient and family
18. Compassion is the bedrock of
medicine
Love and compassion are
necessities,not luxuries,without them
humanity cannot survive
DALAI LAMA
Compassion is not religious business.it
is human business.DALAI LAMA