Hello! With the development of the medical profession, the perspective of physicians has also changed. When there was an injury, illness or health problem, people often provided first aid at home. The medical profession emerged when people started helping each other. First there were herbalists, then doctors...

Medicine is a way of life, touching to the human life. Initially, we use natural resources, and a good physician ensures that the person has the ability to make the right choices and live in harmony with his health problems. Our trainings and treatment protocols are prepared for this purpose.

Just as a person realizes that he needs to drink water for himself and drinking water is the cornerstone of staying healthy, the information we give to our patients during their treatment should have the same importance for the patient's health, although it is of similar simplicity.

In short, a physician should be a person who can make suggestions to protect a person's health, correctly understand the habits in a person's life, notice deficiencies or mistakes, and determine the priorities that the patient should pay attention to. Whether to pay attention to eating times, reduce portions, change food choices, what will be the duration of sleep, physician recommendations are important in all these areas.

The most basic step of protecting health and life is to make accurate determinations about our lives...

Today, agriculture has turned to "plant protection" instead of treating diseases in the field with standard drugs. Protecting plants does not only depend on the use of chemicals. It is necessary to bring the soil to suitable conditions for the plant to survive and to determine the heat and nutrition source required for the healthy development of that plant.

Protecting human health is not only possible with medications, but also by changing the person's awareness of his or her individual preferences.

This is possible by educating the person about what their habits and preferences can cause, especially in the context of cancer, by increasing their awareness, and by providing information about choices that will protect themselves.

Studies conducted around the world show that the patient protects himself better in conditions where he participates in the decision-making mechanisms regarding his own disease, and this is the reason why the patient can remain healthy for many years without recurring the same disease.

Source:
Patient Preferences for Treatment Outcomes in Oncology with a Focus on the Older Patient—A Systematic Review
Petronella A. L. (Nelleke) Seghers,1,* Anke Wiersma,Cancers (Basel). 2022 Mar; 14(5): 1147.
Published online 2022 Feb 23. doi: 10.3390/cancers14051147

Cüneyt Tuğrul MD General Surgeon