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==== Good clinical practice ====

==== Good clinical practice ====

Research has shown that patients who feel that their physician has made a genuine empathetic connection - an attempt to understand how they feel and how their condition is affecting their everyday life - will actually experience a reduction in pain. A vaidya should be a friend of the whole society. The society can be divided into apparently healthy persons and the ailing community and the vaidya should have compassion towards the ailing. The patients can be divided into curable and incurable. The vaidya should devote himself to the curable. For the patients who are incurable, he/she should have the approach of upeksha which means to observe or monitor closely. Many of these patients may not respond to the treatment and approach death (terminal patients). He/she should have a sense of detachment towards such patients. If the vaidya is too attached to the patient, he is likely not going to pay proper attention to the patients who are curable , and may neglect them as a result.

Research has shown that patients who feel that their physician has made a genuine empathetic connection - an attempt to understand how they feel and how their condition is affecting their everyday life - will actually experience a reduction in pain. A ''vaidya'' should be a friend of the whole society. The society can be divided into apparently healthy persons and the ailing community and the ''vaidya'' should have compassion towards the ailing. The patients can be divided into curable and incurable. The ''vaidya'' should devote himself to the curable. For the patients who are incurable, he/she should have the approach of ''upeksha'' which means to observe or monitor closely. Many of these patients may not respond to the treatment and approach death (terminal patients). He/she should have a sense of detachment towards such patients. If the ''vaidya'' is too attached to the patient, he is likely not going to pay proper attention to the patients who are curable , and may neglect them as a result.

Similar four-fold approach can be found in various other Indic philosophies as well. For instance, the Vedanta Darshana, Baudha Darshana and Patanjal Yoga Sutra also describe such a four-fold approach. It is the uniqueness and strength of Ayurveda, however, that this philosophical aspect has been presented and supported with practical applications. [26]

Similar four-fold approach can be found in various other Indic philosophies as well. For instance, the ''Vedanta Darshana, Baudha Darshana'' and ''Patanjal Yoga Sutra'' also describe such a four-fold approach. It is the uniqueness and strength of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda Ayurveda], however, that this philosophical aspect has been presented and supported with practical applications. [26]

=== Reference books ===

=== Reference books ===