L J Ravi 
Bengaluru: Medical social work primarily focuses on supporting patients and their families in hospitals, community clinics and other health care settings by coordinating patients’ care with the larger medical team. According to social workers in this field play an essential role in many of the non-medical aspects of patient care, including helping patients and their families navigate the medical system, assessing and monitoring patients’ and family members’ mental and emotional health, providing short term counseling and therapy, and communicating patient needs and concerns to the larger medical team. Sri.Narayana Murthy Managing director og Radha poly clinic “Medical social works closely with patients and family members who are experiencing mental, emotional, family and/or financial stress due to their or their loved one’s medical condition have done free mass wedding in Melukote and helped Covid victims in Bengaluru, free treatment for poor people”. he said. ST. Soma Shekar Minister of Cooperation also visited clinic.
Because of the types of challenges they encounter and the fast pace of medical settings, medical social workers may find this field to be stressful and demanding. However, many medical social workers refer to the relationships they build with patients, families and the medical team, combined with the knowledge that they are helping individuals, as reasons they entered and have stayed in the field.Due to the demands of the profession, becoming a medical social worker typically requires that individuals earn a Medical social workers typically combine a strong understanding of clinical social work practices and modalities (such as psychosocial assessments, crisis interventions and psychotherapy) with knowledge of medical environments and protocols
