Stories can heal
Today while I was walking, a thought suddenly popped up-I realised I have been “prescribing” stories & books & serials & movies sometimes. People feeling lonely, yearning for connections, conversations; some seeking hope in future so that they can work towards that. Few days back, a young doctor, working in a corporate, almost daily night…
Diabetes, Hope & Technology
A 16 year old girl from a village in Bihar was my first patient in clinic that day, who came in with her parents with a hope to listen from me that her diabetes can be cured. I am not the first one she has visited in hope of cure, her previous encounters were with…
“Ye dhuan sa kahan se uthta hai?”
Confined indoors, working out on a treadmill Walking, not going anywhere Put on the purifiers, checking the numbers Before even breathing in the air Trends on social media Show how much we care War with words Might not take us anywhere Maybe its too late, there is no hope Maybe its beyond repair If you…
Out and beyond!
The roads are lined up with my favourite flowers Amaltas hanging like lanterns Gulmohar shades of sunset splashed across green Branches of papery flowers of Bougainville curving down the walls Morning breeze Dispersing the anxiety of an inbox spilling over with “urgent” “please call” The messages which tresspass my boundaries of time and space A…
Don’t forget to go home!
“Working hard and long Working from home…But not been HOME Go HOME, before you start to WORK from home again!” With work from home, the boundaries between work and home have dissolved and work has invaded over home. People feel lost because they can’t find their home, they don’t know what is home. Home is…
Healthy Eating
We all listen to a lot of advice about what to eat and what NOT to eat. We know that healthy eating can prevent cancers, heart disease and diabetes, and prolong lives. Yet when a delicious piece of cake or sweet or samosa is in front of us, not many of us can stop ourselves…
Diabetes Medicines
Development of diabetes is an indication that there is some abnormality in the way glucose is handled by different organs, or in the synchrony between them and the hormones. Many organs are involved in regulating blood glucose levels and defect in more than one are present before glucose levels go high-pancreas, liver, kidney, fat, muscle,…
Blood Glucose Monitoring
How to monitor blood glucose? There are 3 ways-laboratory, glucometer, continuous glucose monitoring system. What is the “right” blood glucose for you? It depends on your age, duration of diabetes, medicines you are taking, presence of complications and overall risk for hypoglycaemia. Why should we monitor Blood glucose? Blood glucose monitoring is not a report…
“Distancing can’t disconnect; And words can’t infect…”
What can I say that has not been said before My words will just add to a crowd of words… Wishes, greetings, quotes, compliments Words for change, words of action, words with feelings, hollow words, novel ideas, recycled words.. Perhaps words to let people know “I am here”, I exist, I matter Words to oblige,…
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the commonest disorder affecting young women, affecting 5 to 18% of women in different studies. In simple words, it can be described as a “syndrome” with following manifestations: 1. Irregular menstrual cycles, usually delayed cycles in “most” women with PCOS Male pattern hair growth (hirsutism) of different degrees in “some” women…
Diabetes- an introduction.
How many of you have not heard the word DIABETES? It would be unusual for someone in 21st century to have missed the term diabetes or sugar ki bimari. Most of us have heard about it, many of us know that it means to have high glucose levels in blood and many understand the dreaded…
“Stories”
Listening to your stories, woven by your wordsI don’t have time for this, just tell me where it hurtsI may quickly “treat” it with my prescriptionIf it doesn’t become fine, there are some tests to run. I am afraid, there is a job to doIt’s not that I don’t want to listen to youI am…
Doctors’ day!
Why do you wish “happy” doctors’ day? If happiness was the goal of life, many of us wouldn’t have chosen to be doctors. Listening and absorbing people’s pain, illness and troubles is not happy! It maybe fulfilling, but not happy. Struggling to treat diseases which may not always be curable is anything but happy. As…
Chronic care is a journey…
The word chronic is one of the medical terms which people misinterpret. Chronic doesn’t mean serious or severe illness. “Chronic” means something lasting for a long time usually years or even lifetime and “acute” means something lasting for a short time say days. Chronic conditions (I am deliberately trying to avoid the term “disease” here…
Experiences in lockdown times and diabetes
This is a report ofcourse from my experience and the experiences of people I talk to everyday- my patients. I have the privilege now to connect to them through online consultations and they allow me to understand their experiences. My personal experiences and the stories I hear of others have always influenced one another. Over…
Home monitoring of blood glucose…
Glucometers are easily available and a must have thing for all people who suffer from diabetes, but its indispensable and a survival need for someone who has type 1 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes cannot make their own insulin. In the absence of insulin, their bodies lose the ability to use “glucose” from food…
Video consultations
It’s a month now that I am doing online video consultations for my patients. Since I deal with chronic diseases, and my consultations involve counselling and dealing with reports to a large extent, I find video consultations quite useful. In fact since they are “at home” both literally and metaphorically, the connect can be quite…
Shared decision making..in relation to diabetes.
A person walks into the doctor’s office with diabetes. He is newly diagnosed by coincidence and he doesn’t like to be diagnosed diabetes. It doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t make him feel right. The doctor has a more clinical approach: he gives him a set of what he should and should not eat, he gives…
There are pandemics and there is this pandemic…
Staying at home with one day merging into another, the mind just keeps jumping across memories, which I didn’t even know were relevant. When the lockdown was announced, the first person who came to my mind was a young woman I met maybe two months back in opd. A warm person, who complimented my handwriting.…
Night sky…
Star gazing has been a new interest in my house, and now with a clear sky it’s possible to spot quite a number of stars. The lights however spoil the magic and every night me and my daughter wish we could have all lights off, atleast those lamps staring right into our eyes. Light pollution…
What we need most to fight with this crisis! PPE? Ventilators?…something even more important.
These are absurd times and everyone is trying to make sense of all of this in their own ways-nature’s revenge, divine intervention, man made calamity…there are other ways people react. Their fear and anxiety takes the shape of anger, we want to fix the blame on someone; someone to vent out our anger, all the…
Social distancing and healthcare workers!
The virus spreads from an “INFECTED” to a “SUSCEPTIBLE” person. We can interrupt the transmission by creating physical barriers between the infected and susceptible. Best barrier is physical distance through social distancing.There is one social interaction where this barrier is difficult to maintain: that is between doctors (or healthcare workers) and patients. Notwithstanding the need…
Corona “करुणा” connect
Anxious times…A fear unites us all. The fear connects us all. The connection which was always there, Now lays bare, As a virus spreads from one to millions. The connection shows in our empathy, As people pray for those in other parts of the world, With Karuna in our hearts. The connection inspires wisdom, As…
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It makes sense that early aggressive approach is the better than slow cautious approach. That’s what scientists worldwide have been strongly suggesting.Aggressive hand hygiene, social distancing and aggressive testing!The disease spreads in “clusters” only to close contacts. So if we find the people who have infection and their close contacts ( called case finding and…
Humans versus COVID19!
The world seems to be at war with a virus which won the first round just because it caught us unaware. Now we have learnt about our enemy quite a lot. It is a smart enemy. It has used human chain of network to create havoc all through the world. It travels from one infected…
Do not be scared of fear!
“Fear” “Panic” sound like negative words, and like any other negative word people like to shy away from using these. Anything which brings about these feelings is shelved away from the conscious aware mind; fear may still dwell in there incognito; ignored, unaddressed, unheard! A diagnosis of an illness like diabetes: a person with a…
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