Adopt a humane approach, Minister urges doctors
Minister T.K. Prabhu addressed medical graduates at the Tiruchi SRM Medical College, urging them to prioritize empathy and human connection in their practice. He emphasized that doctors should view patients as individuals rather than just medical cases.
Why it matters
The speech highlights the ongoing discourse regarding the importance of patient-centered care and ethics in the medical profession.
Doctors should treat their patients humanely and try their best to understand what ails them, T.K. Prabhu, Minister of Natural Resources, has said.
He was addressing outgoing students of the 11th batch of Tiruchi SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre on Saturday.
“As medical students, we may have been trained to look at them as ‘cases’. But behind each patient may be a person struggling to support their family. So remember that you are not treating a disease, but a human who has a disease,” Dr. Prabhu, a dentist, said in his convocation address.
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