Effective counseling requires knowledge, comfort, and skill. It does not require multiple sessions to be effective. Physicians give medical counsel to patients routinely within the constraints of normal practice. Medical counsel and marital counseling by the physician differ significantly. Medical counsel is offered from a wide base of knowledge and training, and the physician approaches the patient as an authority, clearly in control of the situation.
Stree Hospital offers the best counseling service to every woman of PCMC. Information, knowledge, and training about marriage and marital concerns are not part of the medical education of most physicians, and the physician need not expect to treat marital and sexual problems and difficulties with the same depth of knowledge used to address other health concerns.
Unlike the practice of medicine, counseling does not require the prescribing of the right answer to patients.