Sharmilaraopn's Blog (7)

Medicine is a noble profession as Brutus is a nobleman. Going to a doctor is still a matter of trust, in rural and semi-rural India. A physician’s endorsement is a guaranteed acceptance from the middle and lower middle classes. Which constitute the larger India. Companies seek such endorsements on their labels to gain the customers trust. But these endorsements are on payment. The IMA (Indian Medical Association) does not test the claim of these companies make, but decides on the basis of the da… Continue

Constitution of the body. Vata – air+ space responsible for movement like respiration, circulation and thought. On an emotional level creativity, flexibility m fear and anger. Pitta: fire+ water responsible for metabolism including digestion of food, hunger emotionally courage, anger, ambition, pride. Kapha Water+ earth cohesion and body structure govern emotions like love devotion, greed and jealousy. These doshas are essentially body energies activity, diet and lifestyle effect the doshas. Pit… Continue

Why am I talking about Chikungunya when Swineflu is in fashion? Well a friend of mine has returned from Kerala, she was saying that the minute people turn with febrile symptoms, the doctors hand out pills, on the assumption of Chikungunya as it is still rampant there. “Without a blood test?” --- Without a blood test. Why would it be important for a blood test after all paracetamol that is prescribed for Chikungunya is a relatively harmless drug that it is vended over the counter without prescrip… Continue

Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder of the pancreatic cells. This is a combination of hereditary factors and lifestyle disturbance. The general symptoms being Polydipsia(extreme thirst), polyuria (lot of urination) polyphagia increasing need to munch or eat, there are chances of loss of peripheral vision, breathe smells of acetone, weight loss, hyperventilation when it comes to breathing, nausea, vomiting , abdominal pain, glycosuria (sugar in the urine) What happens here the hormone insul… Continue

Principles of medical ethics a physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical care, with compassion and respect for human dignity and rights. A physician shall uphold the standards of professionalism, be honest in all professional interactions, and strive to report physicians deficient in character or competence, or engaging in fraud or deception, to appropriate entities. A physician shall respect the law and also recognize a responsibility to seek changes in those requiremen… Continue

Inputs from Dr.Arvind kothe Principal Kamaxi homeopathy college Shiroda Goa. Homeopathy is an individualistic mode of drug therapy based on the law of seemlier This essentially means that the portrait of the drug and the portrait of the disease should match. The history of the patient is taken and matched with the remedy. The study of the drug portrait is such that it should match the portrait of the disease and then the drug is administrated this is essentially homeopathy defined. In practice a… Continue

Anjana had dizziness and minor block out. For which she should have gone to a family physician. But frantic calls were made to family neurologist, who in turn pulled strings and got her an appointment with another neurologist at Bangalore, all the tests were conducted, after which the neurologist sent her to the ENT guy. Then guess what, the ENT chap diagnoses a middle ear infection three days of medication and she is fine. Anjana is not the only case this has been happening quite often these da… Continue