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A TRUE STORY but One Sentence at a Time.
(Your Answer to WHY Prevention, is in the Story so Read it thoughtfully till the End!)
– ‘Once, I had to go to a Hospital unplanned.’
Now, because it’s the 21st Century, many of you would think I must have had an appointment with a Doctor or a few Lab tests to be done! I would assume that too if I was you & if I was not a Doctor! However, this was not the case.
Note: The Story Continues 1 Sentence at a Time.
– ‘It was a Saturday Morning, I was about to perform my Pooja (daily religious ritual) when I got a call from a friend saying a Doctor (whom he’s usually in touch with) was out of town & so if I could be urgently there at the Hospital in an hour or two ?’
Once again, because it’s the 21st Century, many of you would think – He must have had an Emergency (for himself or someone known) for which he contacted me & asked me to be there for any Medical Assistance. As an Emergency Physician, I often get calls like that. However, this was not the case.
Note: The Story Goes Further.
– ‘A Group of Doctors (a Gastro-Surgeon, Spine Surgeon, Onco-Surgeon, Dental Surgeon, and a Psychiatrist who by the way, were also the Hosts for the day) had asked my friend (who by the way is a Medical Marketer) sometime back if our mutual (my friend & mine) Guruji could visit their New Multi-Specialty (Medical, Dental & Surgical) Hospital, grace the premises with His esteemed presence & bless them for their new venture !’
So you see, what the core situation today is like! Definitely, worth introspecting about.
Reading the 1st & 2nd sentences of the Story must have made you imagine only the negative perspective of it. That, ‘going to a Hospital’ inadvertently means ‘Sickness’ & ‘Emergency’, should necessarily mean a ‘Medical one’.
So, is it that only the media & news agencies are to be blamed for being pessimistic or alongside their coverage, broadcast & prints, our so-called “modern minds” have also become so?
More than anything else, I believe somewhere deep within our conscience, we know how poor & pitiful our diet & lifestyles are! So much so that if any day, we are detected with a major disease – a Heart attack, a Stroke or a Medical / Surgical Emergency, it wouldn’t come to us as a shock! As impulsive & ignorant our living is these days, we don’t have much choice but to embrace whichever disease (we have been inviting) that comes our way & live with it for the rest of our lives.
Now, as we all know, it’s the 21st Century and you may have heard, seen, or read ill about the Doctors & the overall Healthcare sector becoming more and more commercialized, money-making & inhuman with time; I’d like to tell you from my experiences that not all of it is true. The bad information is at times blown out of proportion & is overrated while the good or rather some great news many times remain under-covered, under-rated & unpublished. All in all, while the ‘Tail’ like the info is ‘Targeted’, the ‘Heart’ touching stories ‘Fail’ to make it to the ‘Head’lines.
Eventually, our Busy & Reckless ‘Rat Races’ somewhere tend to get wrapped up in between the ‘Targets’ & the ‘Deadlines’; deceiving & failing us to realize that even our health & lives are at stake!
However, coming back to the story, the day was going great, full of surprises.
Once again, I got to meet a Team of Young, Dynamic & Ambitious Doctors who were not just Well Qualified & Well Mannered but also Excellent at their Work & the most important & credential part of their Practice was the ‘Ethics’, they lived by.
We were truly delighted to meet them all, I mean who wouldn’t be?
NOW THE ‘MUCH AWAITED’ CLIMAX –
While having a personal conversation with the Gastro-Surgeon in his cabin, he inquired, “How’s your Startup going?”
I said, “It’s going well by God’s grace.”
“What is it actually about ?” Curiously, he questioned further.
I counter-questioned him, “If I may ask you this – Being a Surgeon, having far better insights of the rampantly proliferating diseases & a sound knowledge of the Human Body, can you guarantee that in this lifetime, you’ll never develop any chronic diseases & will never have to take daily medications? That, you’ll never have to undergo any minor procedure or a major operation ?”
“No. I Can’t !” He replied with a surety in his tone that echoed the hopelessness of the so-called ‘hi-fi & modern city lives’ of all of us.
“If being a Surgeon, you cannot give a guarantee of your own health in the future, how can people (even more careless these days than innocent children) be able to make it through? It’s time, someone in the medical realm starts providing hand-holding support & teaching people a conscious way of living. I believe it’s a wise way the TBs & TBs of information could be turned into at least a few GBs of implementation. Having said that, we propose and intend to propagate – “Prevention be given more of a Priority than Cure. In fact, you’ll agree with me that Prevention is not just better but a lot cheaper than cure.
That’s why – Dr. PrevenShun. ”
– Dr Sahaj T. (Founder, CEO & Chief Clinician)