Why Doctor Sahab Stopped Home Visits

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Why Doctor Sahab Stopped Home Visits and why he
should resume now?

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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.

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A home visit by a doctor has several advantages.
These include

• 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

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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

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Healthcare industry becoming technologically
advancedAs 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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.

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!

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