Tag: health
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Interesting Mr X , Thalassemia, Hypertension, Diabetes, and post viral arthralgia all at once
When illness comes, it arrives in clusters. Mr X, a 50-year-old man, faced diabetes, hypertension, the thalassemia trait, and post-viral arthralgia—all at once. His inspiring lifestyle changes, followed by complex medical findings, highlight the challenges of compliance, chronic disease care, and the doctor’s conundrum in guiding a reluctant but “happy-go-lucky” patient.
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On Razors Edge
A young doctor’s emergency lesson: how two loose stools nearly ended a life, and how water and courage pulled an old man back from the razor’s edge.
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Fourteenth Breath
Fourteenth Breath Jul 12, 2025 Bopa Rai woke up fresh, yet anchored to the memory of drowning. For days, he had been navigating the murky depths of a delirium others could only watch from the shore. To the doctors, it was hepatic encephalopathy, a brain poisoned by ammonia from a liver that had finally surrendered.…