The famous saying,
“Health is Wealth” will never need an explanation. Unfortunately most of us
will realize the importance of health when we fall ill, rather it should be
otherwise i,e following footsteps of prevention is better than cure.
Mostly major diseases
are prevented when found in early stages. For e,g Cancer, when
diagnosed at early stages, one can be cured completely.
This article gives you a
clear insight about family physician, a.k.a family doctor, who is determined to
serve us and can cure from major ailments when approached in time.
Helping Hand:
Whether you are a part
of joint or nuclear family. Having family physician is must.
When we(any of family
members) fall ill we rush to hospitals or clinics which are near our residence
or offices. Once we are healthy, we rarely think of doctors, hospitals or
clinics. Keeping a check on these things may not be helpful in our professional
career, they are certainly will be a helping hand for our family.Sometimes,
visiting corporate hospitals will prove costly even for a small treatment kind
or diagnosis. Its not a fault with you or with hospitals. It’s the corporate
hospitals DNA which makes you to spend good amount of money for any
treatment,whether its a minor or major one.
Choose one family
physician, with good academic and work credentials, and make sure you and your
family visit firstly, for any health issues.
Keeping informed him
about your family health history, is must. This will help him to provide better
treatment and can alarm you from major health issues which can be faced in mere
future.
Money Less(wisely) Spent : The consultation charges of family
physician are lesser, when compared with corporate hospitals. It is advisable
to choose your family physician for any day care treatments.
Its fact, that your
health insurance comes into action only when the insurer is hospitalized for
minimum of 24 hours. Health insurance should be used for critical diseases
diagnosis only, for rest visit family physician clinics. These are also called
retail health clinics.
Pre and Post medical
care:
Say for e.g if a family
member has undergone operational treatment from a hospital, after being
referred by your family physician. The post-operational treatment will be
carried out from residence itself. This is the time where family physician will
be more helpful. He guides, motivates and suggests to improve faster from
ill-health. He acts as a Psychological support besides your family members
support for a patient.
Say for eg. A person has
met with an accident and he has undergone with major and critical surgery. Just
experience how much trauma he and his family members would have gone through.
Thanks to doctors effort, the patient is out of danger and he will be all set
to lead normal life say,after four to six months of bed rest. Once patient
resides at home, this creates a tough time for family members to carry out post
medical treatment. Right, from keeping patient body fresh to feeding him proper
food and giving him medicines on time. At this point , having family physician
can help you to come out of this tough time. He can appoint a family nurse who
can take care of keeping patient body fresh,and feeding food on time. Family
doctor can also appoint family phsiotherapits, who can help patient to carry
out his trainings suchas, walking with out support of chair or stick, as
suggested by consultant doctor(s).
Health Records:
Keeping a list of family
physicians prescriptions is must for every one. These prescriptions will be
helpful in framing your own family health history. As like, corporate hospitals
,family physicians often will keep any computer based records.Its our
responsibility to take care of these. Make sure, for every visit to your family
physician you will carry prescription file/record. Although one may not face
same health issues, all time. Keeping a record history will keep you check, on
your health as whole. This will help you in framing a better healthy life.
Self Treatment Vs.
Family Physician Treatment:
Say a big “NO” for any
self treatment, may be its smaller one and can be cured with your knowledge.
Fewer times, a look like smaller diseases,when not cured with proper diagnosis
will turn to be costly in future when this should be fixed with high end technology
equipments.
A Tip to carry your own
treatment analysis is, Keep a record of medical prescriptions
written by your family physician. On top or backside of prescription do write
for what disease the medicines are given for and also re-write the medicines
name (as, doctors handwritten prescriptions are tougher to read and
understand). With this activity you and your family members are kept
well-informed about the diseases and its treatment.
Make sure you keep a
word with your family physician in re-ordering the suggested medicines through
earlier prescriptions.
Wishing every one, to
have one good family physician and a healthy, wealthy life.
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Source:familydoctorsonline.com & Healthbyconnect.com
