Monday, April 18, 2016

Identifying a rare disease: Why proper communication is key

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Today’s restless society has taken its toll on modern medicine. Among all the strategies for protocol optimization and health insurance improvements, doctors get to spend less and less time actually talking to their patients. Each check-up needs to be performed in a certain amount of time, and every procedure needs to be completed as quickly as possible so that hospitals are efficient and profitable.

While this makes perfect financial sense, it is definitely not the right approach from a medical standpoint. It is crucial that doctors have enough time to analyze the patient’s general history, as well as the main reasons why he has decided to seek medical assistance.

Understanding the circumstances that have led to the patient’s symptoms is essential to identifying their correct cause. Moreover, doctors need to correlate the present situation to the patient’s medical history because this will enable them to visualize it as a whole.

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