The word clinic derives from Ancient Greek (klinein), meaning slope, lean, or recline. The word used to describe a couch or bed is a physician who visits his patients in their beds. In Latin, this became cl? NICUs.
The word clinic was used to describe "one who receives baptism on a sickbed."
The function of clinics differs from country to country. In the UK, Australia, and Canada, family practice is often called "Surgery," A local general practice run by a single general practitioner providing primary healthcare. Patients pay, and so is a business managed by a doctor, whereas a government-run specialist clinic may provide subsidized or specialized health care.
Some clinics function as a place for people with injuries or illnesses to be seen by a triage nurse or other healthcare workers. In these clinics, the injury or disease may not be severe enough to require a visit to an emergency room or an Accident and emergency department based in a hospital. After an initial assessment, the person may be transferred if the doctor feels it is necessary.
Treatment at these clinics is often less expensive but often not open 24 × 7 x 365 days. They sometimes access diagnostic equipment such as US SCan, X-Ray, and Laboratory for tests and investigations.
The clinic is part of a larger facility. Doctors at such clinics can often refer patients to specialists if the need arises.
AMBULATORY CARE
A clinic (outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is managed by a physician with the knowledge, experience, and clinical examination skill required to make the clinical diagnosis.
These clinics are often privately operated or publicly managed and funded by charity or the government. They typically cover the primary healthcare needs of populations in local communities.
The English word clinic commonly refers to a general medical practice run by one or more general practitioners, but it can also mean a specialist clinic. Some clinics retain the name "clinic" even while growing into institutions as large as major hospitals or becoming associated with a hospital or medical school.
Clinics are often associated with a general medical practice run by one or several practitioners (Family physicians).
Some clinics are operated in-house by employers, government organizations, or hospitals, and some clinical services are outsourced to private corporations which specialize in providing health services.
TYPES OF CLINICS
In China, the owners of such clinics do not have formal medical education. There were 659,596 village clinics in China in 2011.
Health care in India, Russia, and Africa have vast rural areas with mobile health clinics or roadside dispensaries, some of which integrate traditional medicine.
These traditional clinics provide Ayurveda, Unani, herbal, and traditional medicine in India.
Large outpatient clinics vary in size but can be as large as a hospital,
Typical giant outpatient clinics house general medical practitioners (GPs) such as doctors and nurses to provide ambulatory and acute care but not surgical or post-operative care.
POLY CLINIC
Polyclinics are managed by gynecology, dermatology, Opthalmology, neurology, pulmonology, cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and psychiatry.
These polyclinics are often attached to medical schools and contain outpatient departments for the entire teaching hospital in one building.
Large outpatient clinics are a common type of healthcare facility in many countries, including France, Germany (long tradition), Switzerland, and most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (often using a mixed Soviet-German model), as well as in former Soviet republics such as Russia and Ukraine; and in many countries across Asia and Africa.
Recent Russian governments have attempted to replace the polyclinic model introduced during Soviet times with a more western model. However, this has failed.
India has also set up huge numbers of polyclinics for former defence personnel. The network envisages 426 polyclinics in 343 districts, which will benefit about 33 lakh (3.3 million) ex-servicemen residing in remote and far-flung areas.
Polyclinics are also the backbone of Cuba's primary care system and have been credited with improving that nation's health indicators.
OUR CONTRIBUTION
Pharmaceuticals, medical device manufacturers, government, and even some doctors reject this "Threat of Treatment-Resistant Bugs" to Humanity and our profession.
By not guarding the miracle drug as custodians, we allowed antibiotics to fatten chickens and treat animals, encouraged nurses to use our clinical skills to diagnose illness and prescribe medications, and chemists to sell medicines without a prescription.
We did all we could to stop this "Overenthusiastic urge to Prescribe drugs" based on protocols prepared based on "Statistical data." We were ridiculed, ignored, and dismissed by some of our profession, and the institutions claiming to protect patient care tried to ostracize us but failed. The death toll mounts while our greed, addiction to and over-enthusiastic urge to encourage consultations, perform tests and procedures, hospitalization,, and antibiotic abuse escalate at alarming rates.
We have now lost the one and only drug that helped us fight infections, learn more about our body, make advances in medicine possible, perform surgical procedures, transplant surgery, IVF, and save millions of people.
In 2003, we created "MAYA" using the common symptoms. Integrating this Innovation, we created "Dr Maya" to Initially Identify Infected Individual and Isolate Them to protect your family, friends, you, and us. Maya Clinic is practical, cost-effective, and safe. This website was created to help manage our clinic and prove the concept in NHS Surgery.
Our mission is to systemize healthcare and is not based on an algorithm developed using statistical data. We know the diagnosis of illness is complex and often depends upon the knowledge and experience of the clinician.
WHY Dr MAYA
- Common diseases commonly occur, and rare diseases rarely happen, but we neglected these so-called "Minor Ailments." Symptoms of joint disease are under-researched, little understood and managed with uncertainty, and often using common sense.
- Some symptoms make patients anxious, and so they access information via the Internet or books. This often results in increased anxiety, demanding emergency appointments in surgery, or visiting the hospital. The culture of dependency on doctors has increased costs, resulting in patients consulting friends, nurses, and chemists, resulting in delays, complications, and death.
- Symptoms like runny nose, snuffles, or rhinitis have been diagnosed as a common cold and cough as a chest infection. Asthmatics were labeled as wheezy bronchitis, tendency, viral infections, and flu and were often treated with antibiotics.
- Similarly, doctors encouraged patients with high fever, sore throat, and earache to access healthcare professionals. Now it is mandatory not to prescribe antibiotics for "Minor Ailments."
- Views on the common diseases as seen in primary and secondary medical care vary and depend on the primary care physician or nurse's experience in interpreting symptoms.
- Some patients exaggerate their symptoms and pain and demand tests or treatment, but others who trust their doctors conceal their emotions and receive the best advice or treatment.
- Offering advice or treatment based on algorithms and protocol is unethical because this can often result in errors and delay in diagnosis that may result in long-term complications. Doctors must be allowed to use their knowledge and skill to diagnose diseases and offer treatment only if necessary.
- With private healthcare costs spiraling, GPs and A&E departments under intolerable pressure, the hospitals and doctors are trying to cut costs, and doctors advising you not to access their surgery with so-called "Minor Ailments," how are you going to cope with the stress? Nurses manage emergency care and not doctors.
- We have developed a simple solution, tested it by some patients, and found it safe. Our mission is not to reduce the cost of providing the best healthcare service but to help and educate you to "Alleviate Your Pain and Suffering" and reduce complications in patients who trust members of our profession. To protect fellow humans from unethical medical practices that may cause harm.
- In the past, we could diagnose various infections based on some symptoms and name the disease. Now the bacteria are different because they have developed resistance to multiple antibiotics.
- Allowing non-medically trained persons to like chemists and nurses assistants or friends, to diagnose and prescribe antibiotics without proper training and supervision is an unethical medical practice. We must warn the authorities when we identify substandard treatment and care. We have, but the people in power have not acted, and so the atrocities go on.
- New research has revealed how healthcare providers have become the victims of a demand-led culture. Seeing a GP for ailments that can be self-treated is estimated to cost an astonishing £2 billion every year in the UK. There are 51.4 million consultations annually for minor ailments that no healthcare provider can fund.
- In countries like the UK, out-of-hours and emergency care are managed using nurse prescribers instead of doctors. The Daily Mail in the UK reported more nurses on overnight shifts than doctors in four Primary Care Trusts. At seven more, there are equal numbers of GPs and nurses covering nights. Between them, these trusts include millions of people. In some areas, up to 330,000 patients are looked after by just one doctor at night. (Nurse Cover Night GP; Martin D, Daily Mail; 3 May 2010)
- Please download Dr MAYA App, Register, and be prepared. Always use Dr MAYA before you visit the hospital or consult a doctor. This will help you reduce delay, cost, cross infections, and antibiotic abuse.
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