Comments on: Treatment Refusal http://muragdoctor.com/2008/07/30/treatment-refusal/ Engineering is a Pre Med here. Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:54:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: RxMolave http://muragdoctor.com/2008/07/30/treatment-refusal/comment-page-1/#comment-211 RxMolave Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:10:56 +0000 http://muragdoctor.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-211 It was a pleasure to "push." =) I appreciate how you use blogging as a platform to explore this issue, which really is relevant not only to doctors-to-be, but to the public in general. We need more people to ask questions like you do. Please drop by our own blog www.rxpinoy.net if you have a little time. It's still very young, but we're hoping to encourage more dialogue like this as we move forward. Cheers, and Happy Holidays! It was a pleasure to “push.” =) I appreciate how you use blogging as a platform to explore this issue, which really is relevant not only to doctors-to-be, but to the public in general. We need more people to ask questions like you do.

Please drop by our own blog www.rxpinoy.net if you have a little time. It’s still very young, but we’re hoping to encourage more dialogue like this as we move forward. Cheers, and Happy Holidays!

]]> By: Engr. Dr. http://muragdoctor.com/2008/07/30/treatment-refusal/comment-page-1/#comment-209 Engr. Dr. Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:25:25 +0000 http://muragdoctor.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-209 Thanx, molavem. Your insight is also mighty interesting. Come to think of it. In a pragmatic sense, only those who are willing to benefit from being cured should be cured. On the other hand, what if the patient is a loved one? What if that patient is in denial and refuses to be treated? Should that patient be denied healing? Yet ultimately, all patients are loved ones of other people. Should doctors be concerned only of the well being of the sick? What about those who will be affected if the sick one should die? Not that I would sign up as a cheerleader to perk people to get well. I don't think I'm cut out for that line of work. I also don't think it is ethical to force people to do things they do not like. Patients do have the freedom of choice. It is ultimately up to them if they want to get cured or not. So I guess there should be a limit to how much a physician should encourage patients. It may vary in a case to case basis. I just can't say right now how much it should be. I still need clinical experience for that. PS I just thought about these things just now. Thanx for the push. =) Hmmm. I guess I now have some picture of what holistic medicine is about. Thanx, molavem. Your insight is also mighty interesting.
Come to think of it. In a pragmatic sense, only those who are willing to benefit from being cured should be cured.
On the other hand, what if the patient is a loved one? What if that patient is in denial and refuses to be treated? Should that patient be denied healing?
Yet ultimately, all patients are loved ones of other people. Should doctors be concerned only of the well being of the sick? What about those who will be affected if the sick one should die?
Not that I would sign up as a cheerleader to perk people to get well. I don’t think I’m cut out for that line of work. I also don’t think it is ethical to force people to do things they do not like. Patients do have the freedom of choice. It is ultimately up to them if they want to get cured or not.
So I guess there should be a limit to how much a physician should encourage patients. It may vary in a case to case basis. I just can’t say right now how much it should be. I still need clinical experience for that.

PS I just thought about these things just now. Thanx for the push. =)
Hmmm. I guess I now have some picture of what holistic medicine is about.

]]> By: molavem http://muragdoctor.com/2008/07/30/treatment-refusal/comment-page-1/#comment-210 molavem Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:40:24 +0000 http://muragdoctor.wordpress.com/?p=154#comment-210 Great vignette, and interesting insight. Your piece makes me wonder, though, if the special skills (and limited time) of doctors might not be better used to help those who explicitly want to get well, rather than those who still need convincing. Your job as a healer will be hard enough, once you start in a few years. You shouldn't have to take on the job of cheerleader as well. Hope you keep writing more about your journey towards your medical degree, and beyond. Good luck. Great vignette, and interesting insight. Your piece makes me wonder, though, if the special skills (and limited time) of doctors might not be better used to help those who explicitly want to get well, rather than those who still need convincing.

Your job as a healer will be hard enough, once you start in a few years. You shouldn’t have to take on the job of cheerleader as well.

Hope you keep writing more about your journey towards your medical degree, and beyond. Good luck.

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