A good doctor patient relationship decides the adherence to longterm inhaler therapy in chronic Asthmatics

Doctor patient relationship decides the disesase recovery and adherence to treatment in chronic care practice. This is a young lady who first vited us us as little child with uncontrolled asthma. Parents were educated about the role of parternership program between consultant and patient. The child was asked to monitor peakflow chart regularly and was put to preventive therapy. Family understood the need of inhalation corticosteroid therapy and religiously followed the program. She gradually outgrew her frequent asthma attacks and practically became off inhalers by her eighteenth birth day. Listen to this brilliant lady settling in USA . This video was taken when she herself wanted to speak her heart after feeling a sense of achievement.Doctor Patient relationship in a Chronic Asthmatic: Patient Speaks

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