N. Raghuraman’s Column – Empathy Works Faster Than Medicines in Treatment | N. Raghuraman’s column: Sympathy works rapidly instead of medicines in treatment

N. Raghuraman, Management Guru

I do not even remember how many times I went to the dispensary of the late Dr. Haridas, our family doctor in Nagpur with a bowed waist and fatigue. But I remember that 90 percent of it, I smiled and jumped with a straight waist in just 20 minutes from the same dispensary. First of all, the doctor would turn his hand on my head.

Then ask me to take the tongue out and see the flashlight inside it, as if I am hiding something there. He then examined my heart and lungs with his stethoscope. He used to hold my wrist with his clean manicure hands and used to talk to me at that time, which had nothing to do with my illness. He would ask what I ate today, which subject is very difficult or simple for me. Which teacher do I like the most, etc.

Finally, he would give me a pill and ask me to eat it in front of him, with the confidence that ‘this pill will do a magic within you. You will go on dancing and dancing from here in 10 minutes. ‘ I could never feel that the magic of my illness was not the reason for his pill, but his magical word and the patience that he used to listen to the patient.

This is exactly the same thing, which President Draupadi Murmu said while addressing the first convocation of AIIMS Gorakhpur this Monday. He said that ‘A kind doctor treats not only with medicines, but also with his behavior. The sympathetic care accelerates the patient’s recovery. A doctor’s patience and dedication establishes an ideal for society. ‘ He called medicine not just a profession, but a true service of humanity.

The President provided degrees and medals to the students who were graduating at the ceremony and expressed happiness over becoming a part of this historic event. Just as the President mentioned, hundreds of doctors are in the country and one of them is well remembered by the late Dr. V Balasubramaniam, who was famous as ’20 rupees doctor’. A person who was God for the poor. In November 2016, people gathered in the streets of his house and dispensary in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, who came to pay tribute to his beloved ’20 -rupee doctor ‘.

He never charged more than 20 rupees for treatment from his patients. First he started consulting his patients for just 2 rupees and then continued to increase it very slightly for many years. Even till 2014, he used to take only 10 rupees from the patient. There are still many doctors like him in the country.

Dr. S. When M. Ziaurrahman was working in a very prestigious private hospital in Delhi, he came to a very poor patient from Khagaria in Bihar. Ziaurrahman himself was also from there. The patient reached about 1200 km for his treatment and reached him. Due to this, he quit his thick salary of Delhi and was motivated to treat patients in his hometown for just 50 rupees.

For the last 35 years, Dr. Ramanand Singh of Barbigha village in Bihar, Dr. Aazaz Ali of Patna, Dr. Noori Parveen of Kadappa district of Andhra Pradesh, Dr. Shankre Gowda of Karnataka charge such a low fee, in which even a cup of tea cannot be purchased from the roadside ghost. But when we hear the compassion of the echoed patients to help in the corridors of government hospitals of the country, then these doctors provide medical treatment.

Funda is that Perhaps these physicians know how important the healthy population is for a progressive nation. And that’s why they are so full of sympathy.