tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post3957528656856070398..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Up yours! No need anymore?Sriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-89353168008041719452015-10-18T10:23:45.461-07:002015-10-18T10:23:45.461-07:00From what I have heard and read, I would think so ...From what I have heard and read, I would think so ... Hoping that the comment is not coming from close to home ...Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-62225547522749409642015-10-17T21:49:25.384-07:002015-10-17T21:49:25.384-07:00Doctors are the worst patients. Very difficult to ...Doctors are the worst patients. Very difficult to make them agree for a checkup or further treatment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05973153182915554175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-32423331097710896752015-10-16T12:00:16.724-07:002015-10-16T12:00:16.724-07:00Oh yeah, no doubt about it--there is no way that w...Oh yeah, no doubt about it--there is no way that we men will ever want to push out a soccer-ball through a small opening. I get nightmares thinking about even the catheter-in-the-penis that awaits me in my old age ;)<br /><br />No thanks for the comforting detail on the colonoscopy ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-47675979196249121592015-10-15T19:14:31.721-07:002015-10-15T19:14:31.721-07:00Perhaps the saying is true - women have babies bec...Perhaps the saying is true - women have babies because men couldn't handle it.<br /><br />By the way, you are not awake for the colonoscopy. The prep is worse than the procedure.<br />Anne in Salemnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-50247222701721631612015-10-15T15:58:37.666-07:002015-10-15T15:58:37.666-07:00Yes, ... here in the US they are far more sensitiv...Yes, ... here in the US they are far more sensitive to the dignity of the patient than is typically the case in India. But then it takes a lot of education--not merely college degrees--to get to that stage.<br />All the doctors that I have ever had to meet with have been wonderful to me. It is just that I have an intense problem being in such a vulnerable situation, I suppose. <br /><br />Even here in the US, there is a differential treatment of the people of certain class/skin color, though perhaps not as bad as in India. A few months ago, a university professor (Yale? I forget) wrote about her experience in the hospital--first when they didn't know that she was a university professor and then when they knew she was one. The dealing with the patient with dignity and respect was the case in the latter situation, obviously. <br /><br />But then we all commit that error in our own professional and personal lives. I am as guilty as everybody else.<br /><br />In this case, yes, the bottom-line is to have good health so that we don't have to go anywhere near doctors and hospitals. And in my case, to be gone at 75 before all that need arises big time ;)Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-10693356784489656242015-10-14T18:03:34.281-07:002015-10-14T18:03:34.281-07:00We should examine the desensitisation of the medic...We should examine the desensitisation of the medical profession (doctors, nurses, et al) to the medical procedures they do. I can understand that doing it every minute of the working day inevitably leads to desensitisation. But of us, laymen, unfortunate enough to be sentenced to something like what you have blogged about, it is one of the most terrifying moments.<br /><br />Amidst all that clinical efficiency, there is hardly any reassurance, hardly any attempt to calm the fears. Nothing at all. You are left to stew in your own terror. <br /><br />And if you are in "the old country", you wait for hours ,wallowing in that terror, for the privilege.<br /><br />As the saying goes in Tamil, the greatest of wealth is a disease free life.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com