Task 2 attempt. Argument Essay
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 2:26 am
Nowadays doctors can become very rich. Maybe they should not focus on profitable activities such as plastic surgery or looking after rich patients and concentrate more on patients health, no matter how rich they are?
A doctor saves our life, helps us heal and get relief from the pains and therefore conventionally we associate the doctor with the God. We see qualities of a god in doctors. We expect the doctors to be service oriented and should not pursue profits in their professional practice. This is an idealist view, however and we cannot expect it to be in reality all the time.
It is not agreed that doctors should not engage into profitable medical practices, and should focus entirely on patients’ health, irrespective of patients’ affordability to pay. My disagreement comes mainly from two reasons. One, medical practice is a profession. It takes great deal of studies, hard work, experience and critical judgement to practice medicine. It is a chosen career and therefore a doctor has right to follow profitable medical activities – provided they are professional and ethical. Second, it is individual passion to pursue certain speciality in medicine, and therefore we cannot expect doctors not to go for high-end medical expertise and mostly practice the primary health care. It is a professional freedom of doctors to choose their specialty, and we must respect it. Similarly, it is choice of doctors to select patients from a specific or non-specific socio economic class.
I agree, that our country needs more number of service oriented doctors who serve the needy and poor communities. Having said, that it is also true that it is primary responsibility of the government to create and maintain economic health care services to all. We cannot displace this responsibility upon the doctors to provide inexpensive treatments to poor. There are still many doctors in our society who serve equally and however charge nominal fees from the poor patients. My family doctor is one of them, because he has chosen to be so. Let’s leave it to the individual professional choices of practitioners.
In summary, society needs both primary and speciality health care service providers. The government should set up more free and inexpensive health services for all and for poor in particularly. It is recommended to introduce social psychology as an important subject in medical education, and above all let the doctors decide their professional practices.
A doctor saves our life, helps us heal and get relief from the pains and therefore conventionally we associate the doctor with the God. We see qualities of a god in doctors. We expect the doctors to be service oriented and should not pursue profits in their professional practice. This is an idealist view, however and we cannot expect it to be in reality all the time.
It is not agreed that doctors should not engage into profitable medical practices, and should focus entirely on patients’ health, irrespective of patients’ affordability to pay. My disagreement comes mainly from two reasons. One, medical practice is a profession. It takes great deal of studies, hard work, experience and critical judgement to practice medicine. It is a chosen career and therefore a doctor has right to follow profitable medical activities – provided they are professional and ethical. Second, it is individual passion to pursue certain speciality in medicine, and therefore we cannot expect doctors not to go for high-end medical expertise and mostly practice the primary health care. It is a professional freedom of doctors to choose their specialty, and we must respect it. Similarly, it is choice of doctors to select patients from a specific or non-specific socio economic class.
I agree, that our country needs more number of service oriented doctors who serve the needy and poor communities. Having said, that it is also true that it is primary responsibility of the government to create and maintain economic health care services to all. We cannot displace this responsibility upon the doctors to provide inexpensive treatments to poor. There are still many doctors in our society who serve equally and however charge nominal fees from the poor patients. My family doctor is one of them, because he has chosen to be so. Let’s leave it to the individual professional choices of practitioners.
In summary, society needs both primary and speciality health care service providers. The government should set up more free and inexpensive health services for all and for poor in particularly. It is recommended to introduce social psychology as an important subject in medical education, and above all let the doctors decide their professional practices.