Mostly, private hospitals have junior doctors and supporting staff. But when you visit a private hospital for the treatment of a specific disease, junior doctors may not be able to treat or advise you due to a lack of knowledge and experience. In such cases, they seek advice from or call senior doctors to discuss your case and health condition. Private hospitals often do not have permanent doctors for every type of disease treatment.
Why do private hospitals sometimes call senior doctors for specialized treatments?
Below are some important reasons for this, for your understanding and to bring out the human-friendly thinking behind it.
1. Expertise and trust
Suppose your mother needs a complex heart surgery. An experienced surgeon with years of experience there inspires confidence in you, right? Private hospitals know that when a ‘senior consultant’ visits and treats, you feel a sense of peace that meeting an intensive doctor cannot. Senior doctors has more experience and knowledge about their field. They can treat or guide the junior doctor on how they do the treatment.
2. Skillful decision-making in complex cases
Sometimes the case is not so straightforward. For example, if a patient has heart and kidney problems simultaneously, the senior doctor with his long experience can easily solve the complex problem, while a normal doctor may get confused.
3. Guidance to new doctors
This not only benefits you but also the hospital. The senior doctor plays a mentoring role. It shows the new doctors the techniques of the hand and explains them in detail. You are a master in the eyes of a private surgeon, and the atmosphere of the hospital improves.
4. Reputation and trust
Imagine if the hospital says that “specialists come to us,” then the patients develop confidence that “here I will be taken care of not by a servant, but by experience.” This is not marketing, just the natural trust of humans – “the third doctor will reach the senior doctor someday”. This is what builds the reputation of the hospital.
5. Risk management
Let’s assume there is a short anesthesia treatment, but the patient is old or his overall health is weak. The option to avoid any untoward incident is to call a senior doctor. This is a strong mechanism of safety. The family also gets mental relief, and there is more caution in treatment.
6. Insurance
In some cases, insurance companies or hospital contract rules may say that senior doctor approval is necessary for a particular treatment. But this is not just about changing doctors; it suggests transparency by linking your treatment to rules.
7. Dual Practice
A doctor can practice both in private practice and in a private hospital. Doctors do this a lot to spread their sources of income, sustain a wider base of patients, and have access to other kinds of medical resources and facilities. They have contracts with healthcare staff hiring agencies that often follow the CHG Healthcare service model, which supports flexible staffing and placement across various healthcare settings.
So look, private hospitals are not just calling doctors. They are telling you, we care about you, we need your trust, and we want to ensure it through seniority. The private hospitals don’t have every type of medical facilities and staff specially for complex cases, that’s why they prefer to outsource.
