Prevention is better than cure!

It's been a week already.I got a very nice response from my near and dear ones which keeps me motivated to write more.Cleanliness is next to Godliness....means what?God is considered the superior most...the creator of everything...the basic source of energy for life.And according to this proverb cleanliness is the next best thing. Our prime minister Mr Narendra Modi started the Swacch Bharat abhiyan.What must be the reason to make it a nation wide movement?To continue to stay in power? Maybe!! As a community medicine resident I have been posted in an urban health centre to provide primary health care to the people in the peripheral parts of Mumbai.This particular urban health centre is in a slum converted into a building.So basically it is a vertical slum because the same people living in the slums with the same mentality stay there.This week was a very motivating week for me which prompted me to do something for the community.So when asked by the Communtiy Developmental Off...

Let’s talk Depression “I don’t feel normal” Sneha told her mother. “What is not normal? You get up, you do your chores ,you study ,you have food with us , you laugh at jokes ,watch T.V. Everything is norml my child, you must be feeling hungry, go eat something then you will feel better.” Sneha’s mother answers her.What could possibly be wrong? Sneha is a graduate MBBS doctor studying for her entrance exams. She is beautiful, she is intelligent ,she is independent. But she doesn’t feel normal. She wants to tell somebody. She goes to her friends who tell her to just chill, stress is a compulsory part of life these days.It’s just a phase. Life will be better when she gets a post-graduate seat, they tell her. Her mother doesn’t even think that anything is wrong. But Sneha is a doctor, she knows this is not normal. She gets that sinking feeling in her abdomen. Sometimes she gets up early in the morning but still doesn’t feel fresh. Wa...

Happy Sunday ! 1 of the many advantages of doing Community Medicine....I get the privilege of enjoying a Sunday.Started off with a nice breakfast of anda poha (made by me....surprise surprise) and coffee!So it's a wonderful day to save lives!(How i wish I was a surgeon....but primordial prevention is as good as taking a incision) Look at my photo.How contented breezy and free and happy I look.For the past 2 years I have been longing to be like this.And believe me I thought I was stuck and never thought I would come out of my depressive phase. Depression does that to you.Your mind is in complete darkness.Future is not seen.You are hollow and empty and nothing around you interests you anymore. How is it that a girl who was so happy go lucky and who did not know the meaning of stress and tension go into depression.But we need to understand that our emotions are based on the levels of neurohormones or neurotransmitters in brain.At times we can control them but many times in seri...

Random aunty in society asking,"So what are you doing these days?" "I am doing M.D in Nair hospital."I say proudly hoping to avoid further questions. "Oh great! What specialization?" The inevitable question comes for which I know I would have to spend sufficient time and energy answering it. P.S.M .....Who does that?It is nobody's first choice.Random aunties don't even know about it and they think that I am pursuing some new found branch.....which makes me look good in front of her ...but seriously P.S.M people are thought of as those who build latrines for poor people and who take advantage of so many bank holidays. Oh Ok sorry its not P.S.M anymore.Its Community Medicine....Gives it a clinical feel.Makes us feel more like doctors rather than social workers.But does it really mater what we call ourselves.Think.What we do as preventive doctors is just secondary.The name matters.Fancy!. Ok so I am Dr Rucha doing M.D. Community Medicine in T.N....