How is the relationship between the doctor and patient in your city?

In my country poor people not allow to sick. When they sick, they not afford to pay modern medical expenses. Their life depend on traditional medicine (sometimes they not afford it either) For rich people when they feel their doctor can't help them, they can easily change their doctor or go to foreign country to cured their illness. Poor people not have that option. Some of rich people in my country when they sick, they tend to to cured them self in foreign country (mostly on Singapore, Australia or China). They found fact that cost medical expenses are cheaper and possibility to be cured higher than their own country.

Relationship between Doc. and his/her patient remain strictly businesslike for many folks in my city, so long as the patients pay up front instantly for their clinic visitation and personal consultation fee before met with the doctor, the relationship remain cordial for most people. A few of the patients may have very high expectation from their doctor, they want their ailments and sickness be cured instantly the minute they left the clinic, so occasionally they may acted out in a childish manner and out of line without any civility at all. For those patients, they always equate doctor as some sort of an all powerful divine being that can cure and treat every sickness and disease in this world with just one prescription and in a matter of day or even minute for them to recover from all the pain and suffering. Go figure why these people exist among us....blaming doctor for whatever disease and sickness they get during their life time.

The healthcare facilities in my country is good. We pay nothing if we go to government hospitals. But private hospitals charge quite expensive for consultation and medicines. I go to government hospitals to avoid paying high charges.

I don't think that I have a very good relationship with my doctor, but I don't know whether that would change if I made the effort to go to see them more regularly. In our town, we only get an appointment time of ten minutes per person with our doctor, and this means that you only have the time to talk about what is wrong with you, rather than stopping to take the time to discuss other things with your doctor, such as your life. In the past, in smaller villages, I have had fantastic doctors, but that just isn't the case where I am at the moment.

Hmm, it depends if it is the high subsicied governemnt hospital then the service and doc nurse and patient relationship is rock bottom. While if it is private where the patient treatmnet is bore individual then the doc nurse relationship is much better.Doc are human and sometime they treat patient like non human and without emotion too.Maybe it for the patient good.

As I am working in hospital as an intern, seeing and observing each patient and doctor conversation and point of view, I can see it is average. Maybe because the hospital I'm in is private hospital. But in I've been in public and I've seen a lot of patients and significant others complaining a lot to the doctors, well I am not surprised.

In my area doctors are treated with respect. Some class of people consider doctors to be sort of living God. Even if the surgery went wrong they don't blame the doctor much. I'm just telling a general scenario, there are many exceptions to it. either way medical profession is generally treated with respect.

In my area doctors are treated with respect. Some class of people consider doctors to be sort of living God. Even if the surgery went wrong they don't blame the doctor much. I'm just telling a general scenario, there are many exceptions to it. either way medical profession is generally treated with respect.

Here again friend you are observing the things very keenly and correctly. Doctor's lust for money and high price of medicine has affected the relationship between the patient and doctor in my city. Though doctors are able to get a very good sum monthly but even then it is not as it was in old times when treating a patient was not a cause for money but in the name humanity.

I really don't want be in detail for this is a very crucial topic, I am in the said community and I have seen how patients suffer and I can verify that there are also patient that benefited well from doctors. All i could say is that choose carefully your doctor, someone that is worth entrust your life into.