More than 30 percent had complaints of a psychosocial nature related to marital and family relationships and environmental problems. Only 39 percent of patients focus on instrumental functions, medical knowledge, medical expertise, equipment, and professional qualifications. The main challenge before us is to focus on the person of the patient, to see him as a whole being. The person should be the subject not his complaints, not his problems, not his disease, but his whole person. And here we need a wider perspective.
Medical doctors are in a very unique position in our part of the world.
There is little Christian counseling and no psychoanalysis. It is very humiliating to go to a counselor, psychologist, or psychiatrist, for emotional disorders. Yet all of these troubled people end up in medical clinics. This is the reason for the statistics above. These are the needs of the patients.