Jerry Tenenbaum: Among Canada's Worst Doctors?



Some of the issues raised for the Canada’s healthcare system include improving health outcomes and reducing patient wait times. Improving outcomes depends on quality of service and timely response to needs of patients, among other factors, while reduction of wait times must be assessed within limits of efficiency and quality.

Reviews by patients say a lot about effectiveness of a doctor. While patients have their issues too, good patient care goes beyond personalities, and it is the obligation of health care providers to see that the quality remains high regardless of people who provide it or patients who get it.  Here are some of the points we made in trying to analyze/weigh Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum in relation to the negative and positive reviews we found about the Canadian doctor.

Patient experience in health care: Research has shown that re-admission rates decrease among satisfied patients. Patient satisfaction relies on many issues, but the most solid is how effective the doctor is in regard to providing effective medication. At least that is what matters most to ailing persons and is inexcusable, even if you shouted at them. Most of the reviews we found online about Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum include claims that the doctor overlooked details in the experience with patient, and that displeased patients who had to make the doctor notice the details.

Interpersonal skills improve healthcare outcomes: It is not the first time bullying culture at the hospital is being covered in popular media. Many doctors such as Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum could be excused for being strict and harsh in an area like this if they do so in order to see things done, but unfortunately, research has linked good interpersonal skills with better patient outcomes. Even a medicine fellow at Johns Hopkins said about it better in his study, that “It’s no wonder patients don’t feel connected to what we are telling them, because many times we are not doing as much as we could to make that connection.” Of course, if the patient is not doing what the doctor is saying because he or she felt that the doctor is not connected to him, poor outcomes may be inevitable. Fair enough, even among patients who rated Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum as excellent, some say his “bedside manners” are a bad.

Medical errors: Of the issues that raise greatest concern in medical practice is medical malpractice especially if it can be proved at all. While some patients claimed that the medication by Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum made things worse, the attention could shift to how medical errors can be minimized if none can be proved or has been proved yet: will attentive doctors incur lesser errors compared to less attentive doctors is not a question here. There is no doubt that medical practitioners can reduce chances of incurring medical errors if they paid more attention and reduced their “hurried” behaviour as commonly claimed by many former patients of Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum.  Surprisingly enough, even some of who gave him positive reviews and said he was great, left comments saying that he hurried up things. While reduction of wait times is critical, there are better methods to achieving it than risking lives of people. Increasing number of medical personnel can also reduce wait times.

Patients also rate doctors depending on how long they spend with them to understand their problems, their attention and how sufficient their explanations and examinations appear. We, more than ever before, are faced with a more educated customer and must act responsibly – or so the business world says. The hospital environment is no exception. 

 

 


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