Yesterday we were at a hospital where this Orthopeadics doctor is a visiting doctor. We were recommended to him by an elderly friend of ours who consulted him and found him to be very effective. He also mentioned that
1. The doctor only sees 5 patients
2. He takes an hour for each patient
3. He comes only after 5.30 pm
4. There is a big rush to see him so appointments have to be fixed much ahead at 7.30 am in the morning.
5. That the doctor is 84 years. old
So there we were,having complied with all the instructions,reaching early and waiting.
The doctor arrived after 5.30pm ,sprightly walking up to his consulting room.Very soon the first patient entered his room.As we were told it took over an hour for the first patient.
We then entered the room, wished him and he bade us to sit down and my wife immediately started relating her pain in the elbow.He looked up smiled and asked her what her name was.She mentioned it, and he duly checked the appointment list he had, and seeing her name in the list, ticked it off, then asked her about her ailment.
He listened patiently, then asked her to sit on the examining bed and examined her elbow, all the while pressing and proding , asking and confirming where the pain was. He then pressed a place in her neck and asked her whether there was a pain sure enough there was a pain which was not there before.
After this he sat down, so my wife asked, for a pain in the elbow why did you press the neck? He said the cause of the pain is not neccessarily in the part where it pains but could be elswhere.We were taught to examine and analise where the origin of pain could be.
He then started writing down in detail covering both sides of an A4 letter head concentrating immensely as if writing for an exam .This went on for almost 45 minutes. At the end of it he expalined the medicines and also recommended exercises which were to be done.
During all this time not a word of an xray or a scan or multitude of tests which most doctors these days get done.
later when we read the Sheet he had given us it had a detailed write up starting from the examination to the prescription and including illustrations of the exercises to be done.
The consultation ended thus after ahour as we were told,but now we knew why.
We realised that he took time to examine , diagonise the problem with his hands his mind running through the causes garnered over 50 years of service and then prescribe the solution. Truly a touch healer.
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1. The doctor only sees 5 patients
2. He takes an hour for each patient
3. He comes only after 5.30 pm
4. There is a big rush to see him so appointments have to be fixed much ahead at 7.30 am in the morning.
5. That the doctor is 84 years. old
So there we were,having complied with all the instructions,reaching early and waiting.
The doctor arrived after 5.30pm ,sprightly walking up to his consulting room.Very soon the first patient entered his room.As we were told it took over an hour for the first patient.
We then entered the room, wished him and he bade us to sit down and my wife immediately started relating her pain in the elbow.He looked up smiled and asked her what her name was.She mentioned it, and he duly checked the appointment list he had, and seeing her name in the list, ticked it off, then asked her about her ailment.
He listened patiently, then asked her to sit on the examining bed and examined her elbow, all the while pressing and proding , asking and confirming where the pain was. He then pressed a place in her neck and asked her whether there was a pain sure enough there was a pain which was not there before.
After this he sat down, so my wife asked, for a pain in the elbow why did you press the neck? He said the cause of the pain is not neccessarily in the part where it pains but could be elswhere.We were taught to examine and analise where the origin of pain could be.
He then started writing down in detail covering both sides of an A4 letter head concentrating immensely as if writing for an exam .This went on for almost 45 minutes. At the end of it he expalined the medicines and also recommended exercises which were to be done.
During all this time not a word of an xray or a scan or multitude of tests which most doctors these days get done.
later when we read the Sheet he had given us it had a detailed write up starting from the examination to the prescription and including illustrations of the exercises to be done.
The consultation ended thus after ahour as we were told,but now we knew why.
We realised that he took time to examine , diagonise the problem with his hands his mind running through the causes garnered over 50 years of service and then prescribe the solution. Truly a touch healer.
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