Comments on: An Inquiry into Doctor-shaming in the Philippines https://seriousmd.com/blog/doctor-shaming-philippines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doctor-shaming-philippines Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:46:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.2 By: Dennis https://seriousmd.com/blog/doctor-shaming-philippines/#comment-72 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 03:47:18 +0000 https://seriousmd.com/blog/?p=481#comment-72 In reply to Teresa Ribano.

Hi Doc Ribano!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
I totally get what you are saying. Doc Gia and I discussed this when we met last time and she mentioned practically the same things you did! 🙂
One of the things that we aim to do with SeriousMD is to improve the doctor-patient relationship. Can’t wait to roll out the things we’ve got in store.

Would love to hear what other docs think about this as well!

I’m sure there are many that do not prefer #2 and #3 in your list.

]]> By: Teresa Ribano https://seriousmd.com/blog/doctor-shaming-philippines/#comment-70 Wed, 05 Oct 2016 06:34:10 +0000 https://seriousmd.com/blog/?p=481#comment-70 Bravo on an eye opening and informative article. A few things: 1) As much as feedback is important for both sides to maintain a good relationship, I think that the public needs to know that they have to actually fill up the feedback form for it to work. It never fails to disappoint me how patients will take the 10 or so minutes to do a social media post but can’t get bothered to answer a survey on performance of the medical staff. 2) Which leads me to: simpler and easier ways to do feedback needs to be devised so that patients get to air their grievances. 3) Physicians also need to know and accept that feedback is not a way for patients to “get back at them” but rather a way for them to improve. It hurts sometimes but is important in the growth as a physician. 4) Patients shaming their physicians are also part of this phenomenon of people losing inhibitions because of relative anonymity and thus feeling “brave” about “outing” their physicians. Physicians are put in a position of power, through perception, and having them be wrong and most patients having no power to tell them of the mistake, turn to social media and resorting to what becomes a mob mentality. The bullied and the underdog become top dog.

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