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Of the four components of healthcare management, the role of the physician is of utmost importance because he/she is the person who is responsible for the planning of medicine, management of disease and the patient, and for all the instructions to the nursing staff. To establish a new healthcare facility, physicians should be appointed first. Then all necessary medicines (or ingredients required to formulate Ayurvedic preparations), including emergency medicines should be made available. Finally, able nursing staff should be appointed. If all these prerequisites are planned and provided for, then patients will come. Instead if one believes that physicians, medicines and nursing staff could be acquired once patients start coming, it would be wrong thinking.[3]

Of the four components of healthcare management, the role of the physician is of utmost importance because he/she is the person who is responsible for the planning of medicine, management of disease and the patient, and for all the instructions to the nursing staff. To establish a new healthcare facility, physicians should be appointed first. Then all necessary medicines (or ingredients required to formulate Ayurvedic preparations), including emergency medicines should be made available. Finally, able nursing staff should be appointed. If all these prerequisites are planned and provided for, then patients will come. Instead if one believes that physicians, medicines and nursing staff could be acquired once patients start coming, it would be wrong thinking.[3]

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]

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 ===