Modern challenges of patient care in healthcare system

Abstract

Provision of healthcare has been rapidly evolving into a scientific system of diagnosis
and provision of evidence based appropriate treatment. The old quotation – “around
the patient, revolves our universe”, has never been so true, with rising literacy rate and
the cheap and easy access to the internet has bridged many a gaps. On one hand, the
treating physicians can access the latest knowledge, and share the information about a
particular patient with their colleagues sitting thousands miles apart; on the other the
patient has equivalent access to many health related websites and social media groups,
where to seek opinions about the options of treatment of their suspected disease. The
modern era of the medicine has started stressing close doctor-patient relationship, the
patients’ right to know and participate in decision making and his right to choose. Much
strides have been made in the