The COVID-19 pandemic has changed every facet of our social life and did not spare the medical community and medical consultation with a profound effect on the patient-doctor relationship in the hospi
tal.
Back at home the covid-19 pandemic has had certain impacts on our health-seeking behaviour, medical consultation itself and the patient-doctor relationship. Some of the measures prescribed for preventing the spread of the disease have also come with certain mental health problems. There is definitely a surge in the incidence of generalised anxiety disorders, phobic anxiety disorders where certain persons will have heightened awareness of the possibility of having the symptoms of covid-19.
A lot of people with these chronic medical conditions apart from not having the opportunity of seeing their doctors are already distracted from their primary medical problems because of fear and are therefore more on the lookout for COVID-19 symptoms rather than their primary illness.
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