Multidisciplinary Healthcare Essay

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Topic : Write on the challenges of providing multidisciplinary healthcare service and suggest ways to overcome them. As the country is approaching a very high techno era, everything is also advancing and so is medicine. The latest medical evolution of our country is the introduction to multi-disciplinary medicine. It is new scheme which enables a patient with various type of illness to have multi consultation at one go. Although the scheme might solve our problems for waiting in line to see a specialist, is still has some downfalls. There are a few challenges that can cause a problem to this scheme. The first of the few challenges is that patients may get confused due to too many professional opinions at one time. The patient may find it hard to decide on which treatment they should apply to encounter their health problems. Figure shows patient confused A patient with various illnesses would have many diagnosis and treatments to go through with which other than confusing the patients, it will also increase their treatment timeline. Due to too many opinions by the professionals, it takes a longer time to come to a conclusion thus resulting in late treatment, which is dangerous as the actual problem of the patient may be ignored and thus deteriorate. Another challenge is that patients think they know about their body thoroughly and thus prefers going to medical practitioners that are specializes in the area of interest rather than approaching the multi-disciplinary team as they find it hard to trust the medical practitioners there. There are challenges not only faced by the patients but as well as the medical practitioners in the multi-disciplinary team. The first is that the members in the team have problem working together, as they have different characters and may have attitude problems as well. Due to attitudes such as egoism and stubbornness, they may

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