Patients who seek care despite being medically healthy.
It is a problem according to the doctor Jesper Salén.
– We doctors can get a little irritated and frustrated that someone comes for a heart attack, he says in Nyhetsmorgon.
Jesper Salén is the actor who became a doctor and specialist in general medicine. He believes that people are generally educated about their health, but that there is a health stress in society because of the supply. In Nyhetsmorgon, he says that it is enough to stick to the three cornerstones of sleep, movement and the absence of addiction to feel good.
In his new book “The doctor’s no bullshit guide to health”, he writes about all the health noise that overwhelms us all the time. He takes the opportunity to send an invitation to perfectly healthy people.
– One problem is that patients arrive with a depressed mood but are healthy. We doctors can get a little irritated and frustrated that someone comes for heartache that is not a medical condition but a condition in life that needs to be taken care of, he says.
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Jesper Salén says that the solution is always in the patients themselves and that the doctors with simple humanity would make many people seeking help feel better.
– I think that we doctors need to devote ourselves a little more to well-being as well. We do this best by bringing out our fellow human beings, by giving someone a pat on the back and saying: “This sounds like a lot of work. I’m just a doctor and I don’t have a treatment for this, but it will be fine,” he says.
Can feel bad – even though you are perfectly healthy
According to the former actor, many patients can be disappointed when he finds nothing medically wrong with them.
– It doesn’t matter if you are healthy, you can still have poor health. What I meet a lot at work are people who are perfectly healthy medically, we can’t find anything wrong, but who still feel really bad. I want to get at that with the book. We doctors have no tools to make people feel better. We are trained to find diseases and treat them, he says.