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LETTERS: Stephen Rollnick Author rectifies omission: health behaviour change in the developing world BMJ 2005; 331: 1083-b [Full text]

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Overburdened practitioner in developing world

Jeevan P Marasinghe   (9 November 2005)

Overburdened practitioner in developing world 9 November 2005
Jeevan P Marasinghe, Medical officer 3-Premature Baby unit ,De Soyza Hospital for women ,Colombo,Sri Lanka. Send response to journal: Re: Overburdened practitioner in developing world	With limitations in health resources and limited availability of current ultramodern investigations and effective drugs, practitioners in developing world must be pleased with the service they do. Due to these issues they are forced to be less responsible for solving health behavior problems they encounter everyday. They have less time to listen to patients. Sometimes the time spent for an average out patient may be as less as 2-3 minutes in some countries like Sri Lanka and India. They are more interested in clearing the crowds in clinics and in out patient departments. But a behavioral change in consultations in developing countries is a must with some rapid recruitment of health resources and manpower. jeevanmarasinghe@yahoo.com Competing interests: None declared