HEALTHCARE · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · PATIENT EXPERIENCE Years ago, at a government hospital, I heard a surgeon say about a patient who kept asking him, "She must be a teacher." He was half-joking. She turned out to be one. It became my private joke: anyone who asks that many questions must be a teacher. I didn't know I'd think of that remark again. I think of it now because the patient who asks too many questions is no longer rare. She is in my family. Perhaps you have encountered her, too. A new kind of conversation My mother, my uncles, and my aunts are not medical professionals. When an unfamiliar symptom appears, they don't know the terminology, the likely causes, or the right questions to ask. But they have found ChatGPT and Gemini, and they talk to them like buddies. A symptom prompts a question, an answer prompts another, and nobody waits. Voice input matters most. They don't have to type a carefully worded query or know the medical term. They speak...
We live in a digital world today and this digital
age provides a lot of opportunities to most of us as long as we decide to meet
it head on. My contribution to this formidable era has been quite insignificant
till a thought prompted me to take on creative writing. So writing a blog
seemed the simplest. It definitely was as long as I never got down writing it.
There was a rapid fire of ideas for the topic on which I should choose to write
on but, seriously speaking nothing concrete came on this page. A trash of can
was the real beneficiary swelling day after day with sheets of torn paper.
Nevertheless, determined as I was of dishing out a
wonderful piece, my venture undiminished by my grit, enthusiasm and passion to
be a solopreneur, I walked the lonely road ahead.
Professionally I have been a dentist (yes! I
continue to be one today too), my seniors said dentistry is “Art and Science”.
Well now I think that everything is art and science including writing this blog
stuff. If one does not like my writing (Art) one does not see it and the
alchemy of words that I use make it a lesser known science. Wow! That makes my
indulgences in a sister profession to a certain extent quite daring.
Am I looking for a new niche other than dentistry
and hiding behind this façade of blog writing. I am not sure whether I would
like it to be my profession or hobby or just a fleeting reference. Suddenly my
cellphone rings and my nursing staff inform me of a waiting patient. I close
the page and computer and gather myself to be in my clinic downstairs. One
thing is damned certain
“Love you Dentistry just as Love you Zindagi”
Seems just like a humble beginning to a series of life enriching, experience ridden pieces of texts.. 😄😄
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