![]() B have not since come back for consultation.Īt its worst, patient dissatisfaction could be fatal to the treating physician. She left suspecting me of conspiring with her husband's family against her. B, on the other hand, did not believe she had a problem, insisted that her suffering was due to issues with her husband's family and was reluctant to take drugs for someone else's “mistake.” She was unhappy at being told that her fears and suspicions about her husband's family could be part of her belief system and that she would feel less animosity and more calm with drugs. A had been insisting that she did have a major physical disorder which had not been recognized in her previous consultations, was reluctant to consult a psychiatrist, denied any psychological stressors and complained that she did not believe that her illness could be due to psychological factors and that despite this was advised otherwise and prescribed “sedatives.” I too had felt unsatisfied with the consultation as she left on a sour note. Reflecting on what happened, I realized that I had seen two difficult categories of patients. B, she remarked, “Now I too am dissatisfied” and promptly stomped out. A, was complaining to her husband while leaving my consulting room of her dissatisfaction with the consultation. ![]() B, on arrival informed me that the first patient, Ms. ![]() B - in successive sessions, of whom the second, Ms. That evening, I had two demanding patients - Ms. This set me thinking of an experience I had had the previous day. While chatting with a popular and meticulous general practitioner about his referrals to psychiatrists, he remarked that he found his patients “less than satisfied” with psychiatric consultations.
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