8 ORIGINAL ARTICLES Expectation of Patients from Doctors

Doctors are produced to meet the health need of the people. People, as a patient have many expectations from a doctor. Doctors often don’t know those expectations. The objective of this study was to find out the expectations of the patients from doctors and the goal is to make the doctors aware of these expectations so that they give due attention to those expectations. Waiting patients in GPs’ clinic and the patients waiting in the out patient department of the Upozilla Health Complex and Rangpur Medical College Hospital were interviewed to know their expectation from doctors. Focus group discussion was Patients are the clients of doctors. Health service provided by the doctors is the commodity which a patient receives as a client. It is being graduall