Karnam Shyamala, Raghavendra Prasanna
Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Rajarajeswari Dental College and Hospital , Bangalore, Karnataka, India .
Chief Technology Officer, CloudMunch Inc , Jayanagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India .
J Clin Diagn Res. 2017 Feb;11(2):ZI01-ZI04. doi: 10.7860/JCDR/2017/23163.9200. Epub 2017 Feb 1.
In the last decade, we have seen a significant surge in the number of patients whom we can term as "Informed patients". Informed patients are well read on the medical condition that they are looking to resolve. They may have often over researched and may be paranoid about what they may be going through; they may also know all potential medications that may be used for treatment and also potential side effects of these. However, they may not be in a position to judge what is actually right and what is actually applicable for what they are going through. This causes patients to go through, what we define as hyper information, where they have a lot of information but are unaware what applies to them. In this paper, we classify patients driven by this hyper-information, and discuss how this may lead to different patient states. We also discuss the need for doctors to adapt themselves to become what we call Hybrid Doctors. We briefly discuss how Hybrid Doctors can handle informed patients of various types and states.
在过去十年中，我们看到可被称为“知情患者”的人数大幅激增。知情患者对他们希望解决的医疗状况有充分了解。他们可能经常过度研究，并且可能对自己正在经历的事情感到偏执；他们可能还知道所有可能用于治疗的潜在药物以及这些药物的潜在副作用。然而，他们可能无法判断什么是真正正确的，以及什么实际上适用于他们正在经历的情况。这导致患者经历我们所定义的过度信息，即他们拥有大量信息，但却不知道哪些适用于自己。在本文中，我们对受这种过度信息驱动的患者进行分类，并讨论这可能如何导致不同的患者状态。我们还讨论了医生需要自我调整成为我们所说的“混合型医生”。我们简要讨论了混合型医生如何处理各种类型和状态的知情患者。
