Title: The humility of the Doctor Is the Secret of His Success

Biography:

Anwer Ghani Al-Mosewi is a physician and researcher from Iraq. He was born in 1973 in Hilla. He studied medicine in Najaf. In 1991 he entered Kufa Faculty of Medicine and graduated in 1997. In 2004 he obtained the Iraqi Board Certificate in Medicine from Baghdad. In 2015, he received the title of Consultant in Medicine from the Iraqi Ministry of Health.

Abstract

Since we began training in clinical medicine at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kufa in Iraq, at the beginning of the nineties of the last century, I have noticed that the gratitude of patients is multiplied and great for the doctor who shows humility, a good reception, hospitality and more attention, while I find grumbling from the patients about the doctor who he deals with them with coldness, lack of interest and arrogance. This observation was repeated to me when I became a doctor residing in the hospital in my city in Hilla in Iraq, and I found the patients comfortable and reassured with the humble doctor who shows good meeting with them and kindness with them and treating them with kindness and love unlike the arrogant doctor who deals with them with arrogance and coldness. From that moment on, I chose to be a friend of the patient, as this is the nature of every human being towards any human being. I trained at that time with two professors of internal medicine, of the same age and science, but one of them was modest with patients and the other was arrogant towards them. I saw that patients resort to the humble doctor and not to the arrogant doctor. And when I was accepted into higher studies for specializations in Baghdad, I also found this note. That patients are more comfortable and reassured with a doctor who shows his interest, humility and intimacy with them, unlike those who deal with arrogance and sharpness. I became more steadfast in the way I am in dealing with the patient with all humility, love and brotherhood. And I made this a method for me in dealing with patients that the patient is my brother and friend, and I am always at his service and work for his benefit, and this is what I recommend to those I teach, students and new doctors. People’s satisfaction with you is a great gain, so how about the satisfaction of your patients and teachers? My teachers gave me training certificates and together they praised the good treatment of patients and colleagues. The patients were leaving the hospital expressing their deep gratitude, and even those whose condition was difficult and we only reduce their suffering, they leave with gratitude and thanks. Indeed, the relatives of some who have died because of delayed their health express their gratitude after the death of their relatives and they meet me so welcome and grateful. I strongly and deeply believe that medicine is a human profession, and humanity is humility. This observation and the experience recorded by many people have mentioned it, and many studies have proven its importance in treating patients, and it is indeed an important factor in the progress and completion of the patient’s treatment.