Do you know why it is fundamental have a follow-up with a competent health professional and worry about quality of professionals who take care of your health?
⚠️ Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States. Can you imagine the situation in Brazil? That's why choosing the professional who will guide you in caring for your health makes all the difference!
That's why a good healthcare professional really needs to have some essential characteristics (as far as possible, of course):
- Being a positive leader in the care and treatment process.
- Keeping constantly up to date, with an open mind to new learning.
- Know how to work collaboratively, valuing teamwork.
- Demonstrate humility, empathy and genuine interest in their patients.
- Be accessible and open to answering questions and monitoring progress.
- Be an example of health, inspiring positive habits in your patients.
- Having a positive digital presence, sharing useful and reliable knowledge.
Choosing good healthcare professionals is not just an important decision - it's a necessity. Well-trained and humane professionals reduce risks and increase your chances of a safer and more effective treatment.
What about you? Does your healthcare professional really have these characteristics?
Reflect, value your health and choose wisely who will take care of you!
On October 24, I made a post on Instagram with the title “A decent doctor doesn't cheat the patient”. In this text, I highlighted essential points that define a good health professional, such as ethics, humanity and commitment to the patient. Check out the full content below and reflect: do you recognize and value those who really take care of your health?
“A decent doctor doesn't cheat the patient”
These were the words on the shirts of several doctors who celebrated the ban on hormonal implants last week, posted with apparent pride by them on social media.
I agree: A DECENT DOCTOR DOES NOT ENGAGE A PATIENT
I just have to point out that, if you are a really decent doctor (and not a “patient cheat”), you spend most of your time in daily medical practice:
He avoids acting and acting with arrogance and arrogance because he knows and recognizes that he is not God, while really serving Him as an instrument to guide, treat and even heal.
It does not act as a servant of the Disease Industry by prioritizing the prescription of what controls diseases rather than preventing and even curing them, treating people less like patients and more like regular customers.
Run after practicing, indicating and using what is best for the patient's health and well-being and not what brings him (the doctor) more “individual advantages” of any kind.
He doesn't live on ultra-fast consultations, lasting less than 10 minutes, where he barely looks at the patient's face (apart from in urgent/emergency situations) and barely listens to their complaints.
Treat the patient as a person, with humanity and interest, and not as “just one more” from whom to get money and food for the ego and vanity.
You don't badmouth substances, practices, tests or treatments that could benefit the population just because you've been “paid” to do so.
He's always studying and keeping up to date, without prejudice or ulterior motives, including what's new, but with a practical and scientific basis that can effectively help his patients get better.
You don't speak ill of something you don't know (or know little about), sometimes even denigrating it, just to look good with your “colleagues/friends” or class organizations that share your ignorance.
Finally, more than the Code of Medical Ethics, he fully complies with the Hippocratic Oath (sworn at his medical graduation) and not just the parts that suit him.
Here are the tips.
Do you recognize and value a decent doctor?
Posted on November/24:
We cannot remain silent in the face of abuses committed by health professionals, whatever the area. Although the majority do their work with ethics, dedication and humanity, a minority can tarnish the trust we hold so dear in this profession.
That's why it's important to be vigilant, to value quality professionals and to denounce inappropriate practices.
👉 Watch to the end and reflect: your health deserves respect and commitment!
What about the doctors who order more tests, are they less or more competent than the others?
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