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Dear Editor,
Is rise in complaints against GPs a result of patients becoming impatient due to various reasons related to social fatigue due to vexing pandemic or is it a result of fatigue in healthcare system which makes the healthcare workers less efficient and less sensitive to people's needs?
Do people need to be educated about what to expect of the Healthcare system and healthcare workers?
But certainly the rapport and respect the doctors had about half century ago, as I witnessed in my childhood between my father and his patients is no more to be seen. The relationship is more businesslike.
A Sanskrit Saying goes "Kalaay Tasmai Namaha" - It is doing of the time to which one must bow!
Trust is a two-way phenomenon Re: Complaints against GPs up by more than a third on pre-covid level
Dear Editor,
Is rise in complaints against GPs a result of patients becoming impatient due to various reasons related to social fatigue due to vexing pandemic or is it a result of fatigue in healthcare system which makes the healthcare workers less efficient and less sensitive to people's needs?
Do people need to be educated about what to expect of the Healthcare system and healthcare workers?
But certainly the rapport and respect the doctors had about half century ago, as I witnessed in my childhood between my father and his patients is no more to be seen. The relationship is more businesslike.
A Sanskrit Saying goes "Kalaay Tasmai Namaha" - It is doing of the time to which one must bow!
Arvind Joshi,
MBBS MD FCGP FAMS FICP.
Competing interests: No competing interests