DOCTOR — BEDSIDE – SECRETS

“Well I am going to let you into those secrets. I am going to reveal the major mysteries which preoccupy the grey men behind those somewhat awesome doors. No, these complaints are not accusations of malpractice. And they do not involve bitterness over fees. The activities of licentious doctors are hardly ever mentioned. The major forces of public anger are fired at doctors who are guilty of little more than human indifference.

“Patients fume most because they are treated insensitively. It is clinical bluntness that causes them to smoulder. The public curse is brought down on the profession by the callous clinician.”

We are all aware that there is an epidemic of litigation against doctors in the U.S. There is growing evidence that, in Australia, more and more patients are seeking legal advice about suing their doctors.

Yet I heard a wise and senior American doctor say that “Patients don’t sue the doctor who sits on the side of the bed and talks to them.”

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