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Kashmir medicos ethically deficient: Doctors' Association confesses 6/9/2015 11:59:24 PM Abdul Majid Early Times Report Srinagar, June 9: Breaking silence over years of patient dissatisfaction on medical treatments offered in Kashmir, the Doctors Association Kashmir today had a candid admission, which may leave many a senior medico red-faced. The DAK said the medicos here lack requisite ethics to treat patients and that there was a dire need to educate them on this front. While "expressing concern over neglecting of medical ethics", the DAK President Dr Nisar Ul Hassan in a handout said, "There's a strong need to incorporate it in medical curriculum and introduce training of medicos on ethical guidelines." In a veiled attack on senior doctors, he said they often have been ill treating patients. "Teachers have to be role models to shape the ethics of medical trainees but students often observe them treating their patients with shocking contempt," the DAK handout said. "Medical ethics are moral principles in the practice of medicine to which physicians have an obligation. Medical ethics is about virtue, compassion, humanity and goodness of a physician that makes a difference in recovery of patients," he said. The medico who himself works at SMHS Hospital said, "Patients leave dissatisfied from hospitals as doctors do not spend time in talking, listening and most importantly hearing them." "The prime object of the medical profession is to render service to humanity; reward or financial gain is a subordinate consideration," he added. "The relationship between patient and doctor is based on trust and physicians are ethically required to place patients' welfare above their self-interests," he said. "There is substantial evidence that medical ethics education can improve physicians' attitude and behavior towards patients and increased proportion of doctors recognize that ethics should be a required part of the medical curriculum," the DAK said. "Patients recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of a physician. Medicine is an art of 'nurturing' sick back to health and real truth in healing lies in nurture," the DAK said. "No matter how competent a doctor is, he/she cannot be a good physician unless he/she is a caring person. Medical ethics constitute the essential component of patient care and will remain unchanged no matter how deep the changes fostered by scientific progress," he said. Over the years those who can afford to, prefer to get medical consultation from outside Kashmir. Patients generally complain that doctors in Kashmir don't treat them properly. And since the migration of Pandith doctors from the Valley, many visit them to Jammu or elsewhere for consultation. The patients often complain that doctors don't even listen to them while giving medical consultation. "The doctors often start writing prescription when the patient is even yet to start conversation on apprising doctor about the health complaints," said a DAK member.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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