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| Wednesday, 11 February 2004 |
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(Based on the Presidential Address, Ceylon College of Physicians, 2004) by Professor Janaka de Silva Our patients bitterly complain, both in public and in private, that
many of us, modern physicians, are lacking in correct attitudes and good
communication skills. How much patients value these qualities in a doctor
was highlighted, albeit indirectly, in a recent survey of more than 200
surgical patients, where the attribute most sought of the surgeon was not,
as we doctors would expect, 'surgical competence and skill', but
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