Expert

Everyone is an expert in health care.

Oscar Wilde has said, “An expert is an ordinary man away from home ( so plenty of time) giving advice.”
He was wrong.

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde died on 30 November 1900.

120 years after, today we have million such experts – million ordinary men sitting at their home and beaming advices over the internet to anyone who needs help.

Today we have too many answers in the cloud yet no one is satisfied. So what is missing ?

In health care, people need the real human touch, friendly intervention and real personalized answers.

Being in the healcare for the last 35 years to be exact, ( Passed my MBBS in 1984) interacting with real patients 24X7 for the last 35 years ( must be more than 1-2 lakhs ) today I feel fully cofused and afraid to give such tips on the net.

I have seen the Sugar Lobby finding fault with the Cholesterol lobby.

Every year the American Physician Associations revise the norm of Blood Sugar and BP values so that few million new patients are created by a stroke of pen. A stroke of fotune for some and misfortune for others.

What we have been taught as the Gospel truth yesterday has been proved wrong today. Half of the thing we accept today as normal is not known then. Half of the things we advise today will be proved wrong tomorrow.

I believe Health Care is a very much personal and personalised product.

What is true for me may not be true for all.

Published by Dr. Ramakanta

Pediatrician and occasional blogger

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