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Why Doctor Sahab Stopped Home Visits

If you recall your childhood days spent with grandparents, you would remember their complaints about modern day doctors not being able to visit them at their homes to impart medical aid and advice. They would then start with a detailed account of how in their childhood, doctors used to visit their homes and spend quality time, providing them with a sense of comfort, apart from medical aid. <br>

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Why Doctor Sahab Stopped Home Visits

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  1. Why Doctor Sahab Stopped Home Visits; and why he should resume now? Health Care At Home India

  2. If you recall your childhood days spent with grandparents, you would remember their complaints about modern day doctors not being able to visit them at their homes to impart medical aid and advice. They would then start with a detailed account of how in their childhood, doctors used to visit their homes and spend quality time, providing them with a sense of comfort, apart from medical aid. Health Care At Home India

  3. A home visit by a doctor has several advantages. These include: Health Care At Home India Helping to improve medical care through the discovery of unmet medical needs. Being effective in assessing unexpected issues ranging from patient compliance to medical schedules. Ensuring comfort and safety for the patient. Forging stronger emotional, physical and social connect between the doctor and the patient

  4. Given the empathetic bonding which only a home visit of a doctor can ensure, what could be the reasons that the good old 'Doctor Sahab' has stopped visiting patients at their homes? We check out: Health Care At Home India

  5. Healthcare industry becoming technologically advanced:As healthcare gets more technologically advanced, doctors started specializing in various segments, set up their private clinics and began practicing at one place. The doctor feels that he can provide better facilities to patients at his clinic or hospital set-up than if he were to see them at their homes.Increase in number of patients: With the rise in number of patients seeking medical attention, it can become quite a task for doctors to travel across the length and breadth of the city to patients’ homes. Also, due to scarcity of medical personnel, it often becomes tough to manage large patient volumes. Health Care At Home India

  6. Below their dignity: Some modern doctors find it beneath them to visit patients at their homes and prefer calling the patient over to their place of practice. Unable to carry medical equipment: With innovations in medical technology and complex medical equipment being commonly used, doctors say they cannot carry these heavy, intricate devices to patients’ houses. Besides, these equipments require complex and advanced facilities to operate, which would not be readily available at patients’ homes. Health Care At Home India

  7. HCAH makes healthcare delivery at home possible through provision of sophisticated medical equipment at home, portable diagnostic testing and by helping doctors achieve treatment goals in a home setting. This then looks to be a big step forward in the right direction, which will help revive the concept of the Doctor Sahab treating patients in the comfort of their homes! HCAH is redefining healthcare delivery in India. By making healthcare services available at home, HCAH is setting up an entire ecosystem, which will facilitate the return of the ‘family doctor’ on the health delivery scene in India. Recognizing these barriers faced by doctors in conducting home visits, home-based healthcare set-ups, such as HealthCare At Home (HCAH) have come up as an effective solution Health Care At Home India

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