What are the qualities of a great doctor?

A good doctor is also one who is attentive, analytical, brave, calm, cooperative, creative, decisive, energetic, ethical, friendly, gracious, humorous, investigative, knowledgeable, mature, nurturing, observant, passionate, responsible, reassuring, selfless, skillful, trustworthy, vigilant, and wise.

What is your definition of a good doctor?

Good doctors are humble doctors, willing to listen to their patients and gather together the full array of resources—medical, human, social, and spiritual—that will contribute to their patients’ healing.

Is there such a thing as the perfect doctor?

There is no such thing as the perfect doctor. The good doctor is not one type or one thing. He or she is “good enough” in the Winnicottian sense—someone who is truly mindful of her or his own limitations and the profession’s limitations.

What does it mean to be a good doctor?

“Being a good doctor means being incredibly compulsive. It has nothing to do with flights of intuition or brilliant diagnoses or even saving lives. It’s dealing with a lot of people with chronic diseases that you really can’t change or improve.

Is it better to be a nurse or a doctor?

A good doctor also needs to be a team player. Nurses and those in professions allied to medicine can make your life easier or harder. Most house officers and senior house officers have limited practical knowledge of the specialties, whereas nurses often have many years of experience—use this to your advantage.

How can a doctor help a patient?

You can help patients. You can make a difference in their lives, but you do that mostly by drudgery—day after day, paying attention to details, seeing patient after patient and complaint after complaint, and being responsive on the phone when you don’t feel like being responsive” (John Pekkanen in MD—Doctors Talk About Themselves).