Have you ever seen a perfectly healthy person?
Man or woman for that matter!
I can imagine this happening to any medical practitioner! One of your patient comes back saying that his or her Headache is not cured!
Now you may not remember him or her and the medication you had given but not when! So you checked your records and you realize that you had seen him six months back!
So then you ask him or her whether he or she has had headache for the past six months!?
He or she would most probably reply, “Well it disappeared after your medications in two days but now after six months it has come back again!”
Apparently his or her understanding was that once you treat him, he or she should never have a headache again!
Unfortunately that is so not the case! No one is ever perfectly healthy!
You of course have to make sure that you take care of your health and keep you body engine in shape as much as you can but for all practical purposes; you can never be healthy FOREVER!
In fact when many patients complain that they have backache and headache; more often that not, even you would be having it at the same time! Many times it may be even more than what the patient would have!
I know many who would have more severe leg pain or back pain or even neck pain (this is my case by the way!) than even the patient! Just ask anyone suffering from a disc prolapse which is surprisingly common in doctors especially those who use endoscope!
Health is defined by the World Health Organization as a state of “complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”.
This holistic view considers health to be more than just a lack of illness, emphasizing a positive state of overall well-being, including the ability to cope with life’s demands and the environment!
Many times the complain is that they were taking regular medications and still they got sick!
Many practitioners sarcastically say that our body is not a vehicle which can be ‘trouble’ free with regular ‘servicing’!
No one can say that we have ‘serviced’ your body and now you are good for the next ten thousand KM or five years! Which ever comes first!
Even when your doctor gives a certificate of fitness he or she would normally write that your systems are WITHIN NORMAL LIMITS! Not that ALL SYSTEMS ARE WORKING AT 100 percent efficiency!
Which is why I have great respect for the brave anesthetists who would certify that a patient is fit for GA or LA! This is because no one is actually ever really FIT! The indices and the lab tests are only a rough estimate of your fitness! There have been those with perfect lab tests who have had surgical and anesthetic complications while there have been many with poor findings with amazing recovery!
So you may never be perfectly healthy and all you can wish and hope for is a good and relatively happy life! Maybe like what Unnikrishnan Namboothiri had!
Now do sleep on time for Good (more or less!) health!
Shubh ratri!
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