AN OVERVIEW OF MEDICAL SOCIAL WORK

Social work is a vast branch of knowledge that surrounds a large number of therapeutic treatments and methodologies .Medical social work a broader field of social work also known as hospital social work helps the patient to travel the world of medical care. Medical social worker also known as case worker plays a very real role in the rehabilitation and counseling of patients. This paper inspects the roles played by the medical social worker in hospital settings. The challenges faced by the medical social workers in hospitals have also been given special importance. This paper also clearly defines the duties and obligations of medical social worker for serving the patients in a beneficial way.