#Culture
#India
#Healthcare

One of the reasons of Covid fatigue for doctors in India is "multiple consultations".

So far in entire year I have not come across EVEN ONE patient who consulted ONLY ONE doctor.

Even asymptomatic people or people with mildest of symptoms contact multiple doctors.

This is how we are.

Therefore I am totally against working for telephonic helplines. If they really audit their calls..

they will realise that most callers are calling up helpline "just to confirm" what 10 other doctors + actual treating doctor has already told them.

Current treatment of Covid is driven by excellent decision trees. For 95% patients, trained indian nurse or junior doctors can handle things very well with little need of senior doctor's supervision.

Patients and relatives of moderately and severely ill patients getting multiple opinions is understandable and many times justified.

But mild and asymptomatic lot hogging airtime is a real waste of precious resource in these crazy times.

Asking same set of questions to multiple doctors and checking their answers against each other + reading on web + WhatsApp University + friends and relatives advice groups = fatigue

This also possibly leads to impairment of proper decision making.

Practice of medicine in our ancient civilization was never easy. Pandemic just made it worse.

By the end of this pandemic I see a serious number of doctors exiting practice due to burnout.

Take care.
Mask up.
Stay safe.

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