{"id":115709,"date":"2021-07-02T15:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115709"},"modified":"2021-07-02T15:51:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:51:14","slug":"kind-or-vicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/07\/02\/kind-or-vicious\/","title":{"rendered":"Kind or Vicious"},"content":{"rendered":"

viraj kithsiri<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

I happened to listen to a video interview recently of a popular artist in the film industry. Anyone can listen to this which in the public domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A particular incident she describes\nvividly in the interview took my attention above all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had met with a road traffic accident & a kind three-wheel driver had taken her to Ragama Hospital immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was hurt very much and was in\nfear of her life at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was attended to by a kind lady\ndoctor in the hospital then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What interested me was what had\ntranspired there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had pleaded with the lady doctor to save her life and not to let her die that she has a young daughter at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lady doctor’s response is mind-boggling, the doctor had told the patient ‘don’t worry Jesus is with you”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all accounts, this looks like quite an innocent and very helpful response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, this is the way this Buddhist artist has taken and described it in her interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, it is quite an offense by a doctor in this noble profession to bring in religious, political, or personal views to talk to patients who are under duress and begging their kind attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A nurse in the UK was dismissed a\ncouple of years ago for offering a prayer to a patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other similar incidents\nwhere medical staff has been penalized and erased from the registry for\nbringing in their personal religious points to patient care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either this lady doctor was unaware\nof her code of conduct or done with sinister motives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where SLMA should intervene and have public education where patients’ rights are discussed and pointed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our general public is quite ignorant of these ethics and takes the doctor’s word as the gospel of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There has to be a system for\ncomplaints streamlined well & attended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hope this will catch the eye of those who can take remedial steps to prevent doctors from exploiting poor patients who are emotionally and mentally upset by their ongoing health conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

viraj kithsiri I happened to listen to a video interview recently of a popular artist in the film industry. Anyone can listen to this which in the public domain. A particular incident she describes vividly in the interview took my attention above all. She had met with a road traffic accident & a kind three-wheel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}