Are there good traits to look out for when seeing a doctor?
Depending on which part of the internet you’re talking about:
- Doctors either have a bad reputation.
- Or they’re praised.
The latter is more on YouTube where certain medical doctors share their thoughts on health.
Many though have had problems with doctors and find a lot of their problems were never solved despite seeing plenty of doctors.
Not all doctors are bad.
The way to find out is by looking at the good traits of a doctor that make them viable.
Did you know the origin of a doctor was “to teach”?
Here’s a list:
1. Willing to actually listen
The skill of listening is one that’s lost at times. Most people wanna hear the sound of their own voice and don’t care about what the other person is saying.
They wait patiently for the other person to shut up so they can speak while dismissing everything the other person says.
It’s clear as well when someone does this.
If you talk too much that could be your own fault for this happening, but a doctor who listens not to respond, but to understand is a doctor who’s a cut above everyone else.
It’s a good trait and one of the most important traits of a good doctor in my view.
It’s also the gateway to all the other traits.
2. Humility
When I talk about humility, similar to modesty, I don’t mean a lack of pride or anything extreme like that.
I just mean not thinking you’re gods gift and putting others down to lift yourself up, or believing you’re superior to other people just because you have a degree, went to medical school, or whatever equivalent you wanna use.
That is something to be proud of, but NOT something to put others down for in a pitiful attempt to lift yourself up.
Humility is an art, not a science, and doctors who have it are recognizable and respected.
3. Empathetic
Empathy is necessary in this world. How many people lack empathy and how many people refuse to show it.
You need empathy to look at things from other people’s points of view. You especially need this in a setting where you’re a health coach, doctor, or any other form of improving someone else’s health and life.
When a patient comes into your clinic or whatever, and they explain their issues, the last thing they’d want is for their doctor to dismiss their concerns, laugh them off, and not try to understand things from their point of view.
Even if the patient is outright wrong.
You can’t have good communication skills without empathy, or be a good communicator in the first place.
More so in these types of scenarios.
4. Modest
Modesty is needed to avoid being too arrogant or too full of yourself, Or even to prevent yourself from being full of shit.
That doesn’t mean you don’t praise yourself, toot your own horn as Americans say, or that you don’t take pride in yourself as a doctor or a human being.
It means being more logical, pragmatic, grounded, and down to earth so you can see things for what they are.
Doctors who are modest are like this, and unsurprisingly, they’re a lot easier to talk to and are willing to listen to you as well.
5. Continuously learning
Continuously learning is a good trait of a human being in general, never mind doctors. But a doctor who isn’t continuously learning from my perspective (patient perspective) can cause you more problems than is necessary.
When I first developed folliculitis I was given all kinds of shampoos, lotions, and the whole kitchen sink of items that would “solve” my problem.
Of course, none of that shit worked despite how fixated on those things they were, and how “certain” they were that it would work.
This is because of a fixed mindset that refuses to learn and refuses to be curious enough to learn more than is apparently necessary.
You can see the difference with your doctor or health professional when they respond a certain way, and explain things in a certain way, which is a result of their desire to keep learning as a good doctor should.
6. Open-minded
A doctor who isn’t open-minded is in the wrong profession to begin with. What’s the point of being a doctor if you’re closed-minded and only willing to accept conventional crap big pharma shoves down your throat.
Or what the WHO say without even opening your mind, analyzing, and questioning that information?
It’s not that deep though. An open-minded doctor is simply someone who is open to ideas whether it relates to their patient, their job, or otherwise.
For example, the idea that vegetables may be causing your constipation and even worsening it, despite the fact your doctor told you that having more fibre would fix your constipation.
An open-minded doctor in this situation would be willing to test the idea, even if slowly and in small steps, to see if cutting out vegetables will solve your constipation problem.
While also providing foods to replace the nutrients you were getting from certain vegetables.
A closed-minded doctor would reject your ideas, laugh in your face, or just be dismissive about it and refuse to accept anything other than what they “know” to be correct.
7. Absence of arrogance
Arrogance and ego are the same thing near enough. They come from the same place and they both feed on the same shit.
When you come across a doctor who is:
- Arrogant.
- Full of himself.
- Believes their shit turns to gold.
- And they’re too important to hear your “opinions” about your health….
You know you’ve come across an S-class asshole of a doctor who thinks the world shies out their asses, and everything starts and ends with them.
The absence of arrogance is of course a good trait of a good doctor that’s easy to see, spot, and appreciate.
It means your doctor is easier to deal with, and it also means you’ll be coming back time and time again because they have a good attitude.
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In the end, this is my personal experience and ideas about what makes a good doctor.
Being a good doctor, like anything else, has two sides to the coin, One is from the doctor’s point of view, and one is from the 2customers” point of view, and when both align, good things happen.
It’s the latter we need more of.
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