Yesterday was India’s National Doctors Day and here is wishing all our lifesavers a very
happy Doctors Day.
Much has
been said about their contribution to healthcare from patient perspectives
especially during the pandemic, but I want to focus today on the important and
less discussed role of doctors in research.
Doctors
conduct research aimed at improving overall human (or animal) health. They
could use clinical trials and other methods of investigation to work on their
area of research and research question. Doctors are vital in testing drugs,
vaccines and clinical procedures. Quality improvement studies maybe less
appreciated but are critical to quality of patient care.
Doctors
team up with scientists from universities, non-profit organizations or the
private sector to conduct research. Responsibilities of doctors include
- designing
and conducting studies investigating diseases, preventions and treatments
- preparing
and analyzing medical samples and data
- standardizing
potency of drugs, their doses, methods for drug manufacturing and distribution
- coming
up with needs, ideas for medical devices and ultimately testing them
- developing
programs and trainings (including simulations) aimed at improving health
outcomes
- writing
research proposals and applying for grants and other funding;
- following
procedures and ethical compliance requirements for patient safety.
Without all
this work of doctors, patients will not be prevented from or easily cured of
diseases and quality of life standards would not have been as high as today.
Even if each doctor may not have ground-breaking research accomplishments, each
paves the way for someone else and hence leave behind amazing legacies.
So doctors,
thank you for all that you do that patients notice every day. Thank you also
for your other work like research that might go unnoticed by general public on
a daily basis but is still crucial to healthcare.
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