This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the regrettable and disheartening treatment perpetuated by some nurses and doctors in the healthcare system towards patients requiring care in a direct, non-intimidating style. The book identified and discusses the various reported forms of inhumane treatment that the patient receives while in both private and governmental healthcare institutions. The book also explored the various attributable cause of inhumane nursing and medical care from both personal and governmental levels and offered possible solutions to curb this act fast developing into a norm in the health care setting.
The book is suitable for healthcare providers in all fields, particularly nurses and doctors who are more closer to the patient. As a healthcare professional, being kindhearted and compassionate to patients who are in their worst vulnerable state, is the human and moral integral part of care in which other factors revolve around it. It must be an essential and valuable gift to be given to all patients coming to the healthcare institution. Professional knowledge and skills without love and compassion are cruelty and a recipe for inhumane care.