They are the Love Doctor!

Cilla black was very famous for presenting a dating show in the UK- hence the joke.

In what other profession do you have extensive one on one time with the elderly, know their entire medical history, and personal history? Wait, what profession is it acceptable to miss an appointment time so that you can keep the elderly confined in a small room?

This is sweet

What makes you say that. A doctor who also thinks of the patients mental health is the kind of doctor I want to have.

Healing hearts and minds, seems he chose correctly.

I'd say he clearly is in the right one! We need more emotionally intelligent doctors like this!!!!!!

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There clearly are in the wrong profession if they think that is acceptable behaviour for any medical practitioner!

I don't find it at all amusing, either. I almost died from a rare immune disease because many doctors (especially when I was younger and could push through being sick) assumed or suggested I was imagining it. My brother, who is a twin, has the same illness. He had constant care, constant medicines and support to keep working, always taken seriously. I was told having severe heart arrythmia was "panic attacks" I have helped a lot of persons who I met find out and research what was wrong with them after yes..meeting them at doctor's offices and us bonding over how much we were being dismissed and minimized. I have never met someone who was faking, or "lonely" or a drama queen. Yes, chonic illness is isolating and yes you get lonely. Because you're being shunned by the people who ought to help you. I'd like to kick the OP's butt

As a fellow woman with chronic pain, I hear you so loud and clear. I have had to literally scream at several doctors for them to take me seriously. The last doctor I had to scream at told me I was fine and to try breathing exercises. He operated on me at my insistence.... and what's that? A hernia? You don't say. It's infuriating.

This pisses me off too. I have been told so many times it's all in my head. 26 years in I'm in a wheelchair and constant excruciating pain. This is unacceptable

My feelings exactly. This one is triggering for me

Where does it say she thinks medical problems are all in the head? I see no indication that she's not treating them properly, she's just scheduling appointments to play matchmaker. She is saying that mental state can influence physical health--which shouldn't be controversial.

Good grief, that's terrible! Are you on a course of treatment now? Are you feeling better at all?

Agreed. It's nice that he cares about his patients well-being, but that any doctor believes we've past the point at which we know enough about how the human body works to say they "know" that certain illnesses of their patients are "in their mind" never ceases to amaze me. Not that mental health can't affect physical health (and vice versa) - of that there's little doubt, but that they can know whether something is only mental seems absurdly arrogant given the regularity of new medical discoveries and understanding. Very disheartening to hear it repeated a mere 2 weeks ago.

Also, they never said that they just "assume" their patients are lonely, without examining them first. If anything, it seems like this person is only "matching" the patients whom they know well (they says "people who I think will get on" so they likely knows the patients fairly well), so possibly long-time patients

First sensible comment on here!

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Not very bright though, are you. One would think you'd need to be a better reader to pass med exams.

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Not everybody wants professional support, especially in countries where mental health care is underdeveloped. And there's also this sense of pride where people don't want help with their mental or social problems because it makes them feel like failure unable to what is expected of them. (I'm not saying that they *should* feel this way, but the taboo surrounding mental health issues is very real.) What the doctor does is in a morally gray area but it's still better than doing nothing at all.