Robert Lee a.k.a. Munnabhai MBBS!

I came across a very moving tale in RD, about Robert Lee, an aspiring Olympics gymnast, turned into a Physio doctor by a sudden stroke of fate. While Lee was training for gymnastics of Olympics 1984, he hit the ground & his ribs were paralyzed. He got stuck to a wheel chair as a teenager, that year he watched the Olympics with his parents on his wheelchair! A fighter that he was, he won scholarships & went all the way to Med school & became a doctor. After completing his residency, he is working at John Hopkins as a resident doctor. He says when he was undergoing treatments, doctors always fumbled among themselves & never bothered to inform him or his family about what exactly was going on. That was the time he decided he wanted to be a doctor who would relate to his patients. People claim, he has enabled many dormant nerves to function, just because he could connect to his patients emotionally or was more attentive to his patients’ needs. Lee can connect to his patients may be because of the ordeal he has went through in his personal life. Isn’t it nice to actually have a doctor who is treating his patients physiologically as well psychologically! Isn’t this what our very own Munnabhai MBBS wanted too?
You are damn lucky if you haven’t come across a doctor who never wanted to connect with you on any emotional level. Now I know they are busy, but how can a patient open up his trauma if he is still intimidated by his doctor’s status & attitude? I have had dermatologists who even went to the extent of telling me that my Eczema is chronic & I am not going to die with it! Dude even I know I am not going to die of it, but please I don’t need to hear about death when I am already down with the pain killers you prescribed & my skin problems. I understand, it’s all plain simple science for docs & every patient is treated as a “case study”. But do they realize, what can happen if this case#1 could not communicate with the doctor? How I wish they made medicos take psychology classes in med school as well. Now the churlish will argue how everybody should take psychology classes as a part of college curriculum & I don’t believe it will hurt in any way. However, how much damage can I cause to my customer (some weirdo Honda or Subaru engineer) versus a doctor. With a death, that family is devastated, if any doctor can change the fate of any family by being more attentive/sensitive when he is with his patient (BTW he is going to be there anyway), I personally believe the patient will recover sooner!
P.S: If any doc happens to read this blog, plz ignore technical mistakes as long as u get the crux!