why do most doctors lack a bedside manner?
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Any one or more of the following:\n\n1 ) Sympathy\n~ True physicians tend to have empathic and sympathetic bonds with their patients and some of their patients' ailments may 'rub off' on them.\n\n2 ) Patient Load\n~ Internal complications, such as licensing, permits, insurance, and other overheads, have increased greatly over the years, meaning that a doctor can no longer spend as much time as they would like with any one patient.\n\n3 ) Off Days\n~ Everyone has off days, when they're not as cheerful and sunny as they normally are.  Though with a stressful profession such as doctors, it tends to happen more often than elsewhere.  Every doctor knows that even the slightest mistake can cost a patient their life; that's a LOT of stress!
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Because it is not enough to be good at what we do-whatever that may be.  We need to be good at what we do within an efficient and productive system.  For example, I may be the best football player in the world, but i will not win anything if my team really can't play.  Take that theory to economics, good doctors need good nurses, pharmaceutical companies, even good janitors in order to work to their best.  If we don't understand how our specialized area works completely, we won't know how to be our best.
603088
I know lots of Doctors (IM a nurse), they have doctors to care for them...they arent allowed to prescribe meds for themselves, anyway, so would need another doctor.
693381
Doctors are to listen to their patients because many symptoms are not evident. A chat with the patient to find out what he is feeling is more accurate than drawing blood and doing all kind of tests. \nSo it seems like you have a bunch of doctors who are not listening to you or paying attention to you. I will agree you should change the hospital where you are to another. If the hospital staff behave like that, that shows the lack of professionalism in that facility. I will agree that you file charges for compensation to repay for your suffering. If they had been attentive, you would not have to undergo unnecessary pains. Seek legal recourse not only against the doctors but also the hospital. There may be others who may not survive similiar ordeals.
244248
Doctors don't know it all.  They are practicing on us.
1088664
Why not see a doctor ?
974797
The part I enjoyed most was the actual bedside care. The important part is to give 100% to each patient when you were caring for them but to not leave behind bits of yourself emotionally with any patient. If you become too attached to any patient then you cannot effectively work in an emergency involving them. Also when you go home at night, don't take the job home with you. Think about things other than your patients or the job when you aren't on the job. To be able to give 100% on the job, you need to be fully rested and alert each day when you report for duty.
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You know, to be honest, I would continue to see my Doctor if he had AIDS. Unless he bleeds into your eyeball, mouth or an open wound on your body, then I think a person would be safe. It's the Doc's manner and skill that are important to me. However, a lot of people would be afraid because of ignorance and I don't mean that in an insulting way. A lot of people are fearful of that which they do not understand so the poor Doc might not get many patients. Come to think of it, I was treated by a Doctor who had AIDS but I wasn't worried and I'm fine to this day.
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Dear Classychris,\nm not a nurse but i work with them all the time.\ntruth is in a hospital, a Doctor / Surgeon would do his job (diagnosis, surgery,prescribe med) for the patientn its upto the on duty nurse to see that everything is done meticulously.the nurses i know love their job but are exhausted cos its a major big job!\none thing i can tell U for sure... Doctors truly truly appreciate having a dependable nurse around. it makes things so much easier for everyone.\nmost patients open up to nurses cos they interact with them so much more than the docs.n a patient would usually remember the nurse a lot more than the doc too... honest!\nso if U a nurse and no one has told U yet.... Thank U for being a Nurse! Your work is truly appreciated.\ntake care
715985
ask your doctor instead of us amateurs
314074
The answer is no.....we are working in a career that is a sacred responsibility and trust.  There are some sick poeple in this field as there are in any, but the overwhelming majority of healthcare professionals are there with a genuine desire to do only good and help those who cant help themselves when they are down and need support and care the most.  For me when I have patient contact it is from a position of compasion and caring.  The necessity of contact is usually for diagnostic purposes or to calm and sooth.  At some points after many years of education in anatomy and physiology it actually seems sometimes like working on a car.  Plus consider that most of the times when we are in contact with the areas mentiond it is becasue of a disease process.....even the most warped of healthcare providers could not be turned on by that.
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I agree but so many people don't have health ins these days and can't afford to consult a Dr. Also, some people are afraid of doctors. It is dangerous and foolhardy to expect to get life altering health information here.
536872
Not just with doctors, but in *any* field, terminology lets experts communicate efficiently with each other in shorter sentences.  Doctors can write and talk about "the condition where the muscle at the end of the stomach is too tight and doesn't let food out", or they can say "pyloric stenosis."  It seems harder to non-experts, but that is *so* much easier and faster for doctors.
544846
Sometimes it is because of the doctors not doing the correct processes, they are majority first year medical students doing there interns. I think also the doctors don't do enough research before they operate on patients. All processes are not for everyone.
71093
The rooms are small and they would just be in the way. AND - We are such a law suit crazy country that no dentist wants to work behind a closed door, especially with a patient of the opposite sex. Their insurance doesn't want them behind closed doors either. It also makes it much easier to call an assistant or to move among several patients who are all in different stages of treatment at the same time.
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sounds like you need a new doctor , not all yell ,but not all are good ether
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Not everyone is equipped to be a doctor. And in America, being a doctor is a HUGE responsibility. Patients sue if you don't cut their hangnails properly. The costs for medical school are astronomical and malpractice insurance costs an arm and a leg. There just really isn't a whole lot of incentive to be a doctor these days. Sadly.