Reading your comments, I was wondering if doctors in other countries have the same dilemmas as I have. Foremost is the fact that we have to think of the financial capacity of the patient before we do anything even ordering diagnostics to help us in determining the patient's problem. Social medicine does not limit the doctor to do the cheapest diagnostics he could to reach a diagnosis. HMO'S in the UNITED STATES have a high ceiling of expense for each patient that their doctors could order basics laboratory exams which for us in the third country are special procedures.
But so often, with a lot of expats coming to my clinic, I encounter disappointments and complains coming from them about their countries' medical care than from the locals. We do the most minimal diagnostics to a patient in order to arrive to a working diagnosis. We forego laboratory exams that other wise duplicate or does not give any advantage to the patient. As such, we rock our brains to 100% capacity to give the best medical care a patient needs without him losing his pants in the process. If we would do all the diagnostics other doctors order, the patient will lose even his underwear.
But so often, with a lot of expats coming to my clinic, I encounter disappointments and complains coming from them about their countries' medical care than from the locals. We do the most minimal diagnostics to a patient in order to arrive to a working diagnosis. We forego laboratory exams that other wise duplicate or does not give any advantage to the patient. As such, we rock our brains to 100% capacity to give the best medical care a patient needs without him losing his pants in the process. If we would do all the diagnostics other doctors order, the patient will lose even his underwear.
Your comments assume that a majority of medical physicians in Philippies thinks like yourself. That is not my experience. You are a special individual whom thinks about the needs of his patient. You consider the financial side of health care. That is not the thinking of most medical professionals anywhere. I personally see so many cases of services and proceedures being performed without any regard to the patients financial abilities. You are a special individual whom accepts his role in a way which all other medical professionals should emulate.
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