Why Good Doctors Are Forced to Give Bad Advice?

Have you ever asked doctor the reason for youreverything like car, house etc., by himself, by the
sickness? Or why it has occurred? If not askedtime a person completes MBBS and MD courses.
anytime, do it when you go to doctor next time.So, the person after completing his medicine tries
They are afraid that they will lose patients, if theyto establish a good practice as early as possible,
provide technically accurate response that issince they feel they are already too late. This can
suitable for educated patients. Since only a smallbe achieved by having a good medical practice,
number of people behave in an "educated"which means they need to cater to many kinds
manner, doctors hesitate to give good advice forof educational backgrounds to come to them.
a variety of reasons. The most important reasonPatients do not cooperate with doctor
being first to surviveDoctors try to provide best treatment to
Clinic requires lot of patients to make it viablepatients by saying good things. However, there
After the completion of medicine, person will notwill be old-fashioned patients who are not
be immediately appointed as a doctor in hospitaleducated and may strongly disagree with the
as they are already preoccupied with wellsuggestions given by doctors. For example when
established and experienced doctors in gooddoctors suggest that consumption of citrus fruits
number. Moreover, there will be social pressure tolike oranges reduces cold, old fashioned patients
earn money. So, a person after completion ofare not aware of this and claim that taking of
medicine should establish small health center likethese fruits causes cold. If Dalai Lama, a great
clinic and provide treatment to people for somepeace preacher approaches Afghanistan terrorists
time period. In order to handle expenses likeand preach them about peace and its importance
office rents, advance to place, pay salaries tofor few minutes, will they change their attitude?
attenders, cleaners, paramedic staff etc., heNo. Similarly, attitude of old-fashioned people
needs to invest a lot of money, for which hecannot be changed in 10-15 minutes even if
cannot depend on his family further because theydoctor gives good advice. Many patients will follow
had already spent so much money for hisold beliefs and circulates negative feedback on
education to complete medicine. So, the onlydoctor's treatment if they try to change their
option left for him is to earn money by givingoutdated beliefs. So doctors are afraid in
treatment to patients and to retain these patientsconfronting the beliefs of such patients and do not
i.e to make them comfortable to come to him ingive scientific advice to them, as they could lose
future for any health problem, so that he getpatients. Doctors provide treatment to patient
more income to handle all his expenses. Evenbased on their attitude and on how educated the
though he is good at his treatment or work, hepatient is.
needs to keep his patients comfortable in orderSo, an educated person should ask a doctor for
to survivethe cause of his health condition or sickness.
There is peer pressure to be successfulUnless you establish that you are an educated
For a person, to complete medicine he requiresperson and only after the doctor is fully convinced
nearly eight and half years whereas anthat you are genuinely seeking a scientific opinion
engineering graduate can complete education indoes the doctor give technically accurate
four years. The person who completed graduation(modern) diagnosis. If you do not convince the
in any other field like engineering (exceptdoctor that you are educated, you are likely to
medicine) will get settled in a short span of timebe treated as an ignorant villager.
after completion of education. He owns almost