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We are visiting our eldest daughter in the French Antilles island of Guadeloupe. She is a junior doctor here and shares a bungalow overlooking the Caribbean sea with another junior doctor. Our daughter is in her full elements here after years of hard studies and living in not so tropical conditions in Nantes. being the lowest in the medical food-chain, they still work very hard. They keep long unsocial hours, drive around the island to visit different health facilities on single lane, twisting turning mountain roads. Besides the excess workload of being at a place which has a severe shortage of doctors, the publicly funded French healthcare system allows doctors to focus more on care than administration of it. Raised in a family of doctors, forty years ago, I found that also in India. My grandfather or my father, both ENT surgeons who practiced privately, hardly ever complained about non-medical matters while talking about their professional engagements. Studies show that today in privately managed healthcare systems particularly, doctors are most frustrated by third-party interferences; managing chronic care patients effectively and lack of patient engagements.

Some of the key challenges faced by the doctors in modern societies, particularly in the private sector are   

• Overpowering third-party interferences
• Palliative care coordination between chronic patients, other HCPs and caregivers
• Poor communication may lead to poor patient engagement, dissatisfaction, discontinuity of care, diminished patient safety and autonomy
• Overburdened situation during pandemic

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