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The greatest wealth in the world is health. Knowingly or unknowingly, nowadays, people try to earn money – wealth - day and night by spoiling their health. Later, they spend the money earned, the wealth, for retrieval of health but they may not succeed completely or satisfactorily.

Living comfortably or living better or living longer all depends on the state of our health, habits and our maintaining procedures. Tortoise naturally lives longer due to its slow and gentle breathing. A sportsperson lives longer with his/her reduced (but stronger) pulse and heart rate. Women live longer due to their lachrymose-ness. Villagers live longer due to their healthy food and pollution-free healthy environment.

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In this modern era, in spite of all the pollution and contamination, the death rate has fallen and average human life is also increasing with our modern medical advancement. But no one can claim that the quality of life has increased due to our habits and foods. People have started to maintain their health with medicines and live with its side-effects.

About disease – Disease is a deranged state of health (either in body or mind). Other than natural diseases, we also create many artificial diseases with drugs. If one takes pain-killer for headache or body pain, it may cause ulceration of the stomach; likewise, if one takes treatment for sleeplessness or fits or allergy, dullness or lack of concentration will come as dividend. And also fear kills more than the disease itself.

About treatment – God designed our body with natural healing too. The only thing is we have to wait and cooperate with our body with rest and care. One can re-discover health and happiness if one takes care of one’s complaints with patience. But in this hurried world, without having any patience and also to outweigh all risk factors, one approaches the doctors with a lot of hope, expecting instant and miraculous cure.

Every disease has its own cure or management. There are many systems of treatment with their own advantage and disadvantage and limits. Cure is more important than the system or doctor. Nowadays, treatment is linked more to insurance and medical claims. These links can pay only the bills for treatment. But, no one will take over the pain of suffering or mental agony caused. Finally, realising “prevention is better than cure”, one must go for master health check-up every year. One must be thankful for the first symptom of the disease or abnormal investigation, since it betrays the complaint and sets the alarm bell ringing in us to act in the beginning of the disease itself.

The real healing secrets are

• Don’t self-medicate, since even doctors will not try self medication.

• Avoid drug cocktails, like adding a pill for each complaint or symptom/mixing a variety of medicines from a variety of doctors.

• Take the right medicines in the right dosage from the right doctor.

Don’t try self-medication – No one should take probability or chances in curing a disease. To cure diseases, one should have knowledge of the disease, drug, and applicable knowledge of drugs on diseases. These must go hand-in-hand for sure success. Disease knowledge includes study of symptoms and diagnosing the patient with clinical findings and investigations. Drug knowledge includes study of drugs. Applicable knowledge of drugs on diseases or persons comes only with experience which cannot be taught. So an experienced, qualified doctor is absolutely necessary to treat a disease. A doctor can only outweigh all the risks of diseases.

Avoid drug cocktails – Going for multiple drugs either with self-knowledge or with multiple doctors will usually be harmful. Some people consult different doctors for different complaints and they won’t reveal one to another. They would think this might be none of his business and simply ignore it. This attitude finally traps them with lots of complications and drug diseases. They need to tell everything to the doctor to avoid drug interactions. Also, these multiple drugs, instead of giving cure, will often cause more derangements and complicate the disease more, making cure impossible.

About doctor - From olden days, doctors are treated next to God and sometimes as life-saving God himself. A doctor can track the disease without any complication and also speed up cure. One should be aware that doctor treats us with the help of symptom presentation in diseases and investigations only. All other things are in the hands of Nature/God: Doctor treats, God cures.

A doctor’s duty is restoring the health from the disease state and preserving it from further recurrences. A doctor has to calm the mind of the patient with his words, his medicines and with his care. But in this world in a hurry, doctors are also busy with a lot of patients who are rushed, and they often just listen to the narrated complaints of the patients and prescribe medicines accordingly without much interrogation, since the patients also do not reveal much. Only with family physician many patients used to reveal their problems, cry with emotions, and leave the place with peace of mind after the doctor’s counselling and reassurances. The doctor’s reassurance usually initiates cure. That is why many a time even a specialist cannot replace one’s family physician who reassures in a better way. Having more faith and reliability in the family physician, one usually gets rid of complaints quickly and more easily when talking to one’s family physician. This proves the saying: “Finally, it is faith that cures”.

A good result i.e., cure, usually depends on:

• Accurate diagnosis of the doctor

• Reassurance of the doctor

• Selection of the apt drug

• Dosage of the selected drug

• Acceptance of the drug by the body (i.e. allergy/sensitivity should not be there)

• Action of the drug – since it varies from person to person.

• Early start-up of the treatment

• Cooperation of the sufferer in following doctor’s advice and with follow-up.

Manyatimes, doctors are questioned about the reason for the suffering. The doctor needs to answer even though today’s advanced science has not answered many questions with regard to causes. I.e., if you suspect bacteria as the culprit for a particular disease, why doesn’t everyone get affected in spite of taking the same water, food or living in the same environment. Also, on many occasions, the causative factor could not be found. For example, cancer, auto immune disorders, etc. Even in such cases, doctors are compelled to assure cure, even though it may or may not be in their hands altogether. Doctors can promise cure only if they find the cause, find proper treatment and so on, combined with a lot of experience. In incurable diseases, doctors can guide the patients to manage the situation for better living.

In general, doctors play the role of a comrade, counsellor, consoler, convener, Columbus, in finding the root cause of the disease, and finally as a ‘healer’. He has to help his patients all the way. Betterment will be at the doorstep of the people if they cooperate with the doctor and follow his advice.

How can patients help doctors help them?

(To be continued)

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Published on March 6^th, 2006