Last Updated on June 17, 2022 by Neelam Singh
Dr Suman Jain is the Secretary and Chief Medical Research Officer at Thalassemia & Sickle Cell Society, Hyderabad. She has also been associated with Neerikshana as a Senior research officer.
What is the best thing you enjoy about treating patients?
Providing the free and best services to the people suffering from thalassemia and sickle cell disease is the best part of my job because general public is not aware about these health conditions.
When is a patient easy to treat?
Patients who understand their disorders and manage them positively are easy to treat as they trust their doctor in their fight against the disease.
When is a patient difficult to treat?
As thalassemia is a disease that mostly starts showing its signs during childhood, therefore, if the parents do not take the responsibility of the child’s treatment properly, it gets difficult for us to treat them. Parents should understand that early diagnosis is necessary to treat the patients.
How helpful is it to the treatment course, if the patient is knowledgeable about the treatment procedure, benefits, risks etc.?
Our job as doctors gets easy when patients or their family members understand and know about the condition and its treatment procedure. A curious patient with a positive outlook makes the treatment easy.
How can a patient improve his knowledge about the treatment procedure (apart from consulting the doctor, of course)?
Patients can be a part of patient groups to know and understand experiences of others, which may help them for better management of the disorder. Apart from that, reading about the health disease through verified sources such as online journals and websites is also helpful.
How medical misinformation act as a problem in the overall treatment procedure?
Medical misinformation is very dangerous for the patients and their treatment. Thalassemia is one such disease that requires its patients to have correct information regarding the disease. Therefore, any misinformation regarding the medical treatment can be harmful for the patient.
A few advice that you always give to your patients (about staying healthy, about escaping misinformation, etc.)
I always advise my patients to undergo the medical procedures that they are supposed to, take medication and follow a healthy diet regularly.
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