Be Compassionate towards Patients : PM Narendra Modi To Doctors at PGIMER
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CHANDIGARH: Calling upon doctors to be compassionate towards patients, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday told the medical fraternity that people were now moving from treatment of illness towards achieving wellness.
"Doctors who focus on patients were more successful than those who focus on the disease. Be compassionate (to patients) as doctors. Common people consider you as gods. Address wellness and well being, not the illness alone," the prime minister said in his address at the 34th annual convocation of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here on Friday.
"You are doctors not a mechanic. Doctors also deal with tools. But doctors don't deal with a machine but with a living being. Only knowledge not important, you have to build the human bond with patients. Technology has improved a lot to help you," said Modi.
"Things are changing in our society. People want to be away from medicines. They want to move from treatment of illness to wellness. Yoga is one tool to achieve that," he added.
"Doctors who focus on patients were more successful than those who focus on the disease. Be compassionate (to patients) as doctors. Common people consider you as gods. Address wellness and well being, not the illness alone," the prime minister said in his address at the 34th annual convocation of the Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here on Friday.
"You are doctors not a mechanic. Doctors also deal with tools. But doctors don't deal with a machine but with a living being. Only knowledge not important, you have to build the human bond with patients. Technology has improved a lot to help you," said Modi.
"Things are changing in our society. People want to be away from medicines. They want to move from treatment of illness to wellness. Yoga is one tool to achieve that," he added.
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