Medical Columns

"Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms."
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
'The Sure-Cure School,' Collier’s Weekly (14 Jul 1906). Reprinted in The Great American Fraud (1907), 84.

Holds true even after more than a century.

Pain! What Pain?

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The pain you suffer is your problem. Harsh, very harsh, but true. Once you realize that, only then will changes take place in the right direction. Since it’s your problem, you need to take a more proactive role in treating pain and managing it. At times, pain is there to stay. But it’s entirely up to you if you have the desire to suffer as well. Below is an example of die-hard lady who decided not to suffer, even though she had enough pain thrown at her.

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The hollow medals

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"We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living." These words of wisdom by President John F. Kennedy, sums up my passion about the need for a move-mint in India. Our own Mahatma Gandhi had said, "It is health that is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold."

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Is a Gold medal really worth it?

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It’s amazing to see that for the longest time in history, we have been so crazy about winning, rather, wanting someone else to win a gold medal at the highest level in any sports in an arena. A lot of effort, time and money is spent in pursuit of that much-sought-after award. 

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Running: Losing my religion

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I am a runner by religion, and a very staunch one at that. I became a runner when I was 9 years old. I firmly believed that running gives you an even playing ground, which strips all of their social status and financial standing. 

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The fizzy healthcare industry

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I bring up the issue of fizzy drinks as currently there is a big move on in the UK where the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, comprising of 220,000 doctors, is demanding the government to levy extra taxes on fizzy drinks.

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Think thrice before you choose your sports trainer

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When a fitness trainer, attached to a premiere tennis academy tells me that muscle imbalances and poor posture are bound to happen in kids playing tennis for 4 hrs a day, I simply lose it.

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Run & Become, Become & Run

Ongkar Tony Smith began the first chain of running-specific sports shop in the UK

“Before I knew it, for once in my life, I was helping lead a boom, in road running.” Smith, while he headed the running club Runners are Smilers, now called Self-Transcendence, made his races some of the simplest and best in the UK.

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Fascinating response from a physiotherapist looking for a job

Check below a response (highlighted) from a physiotherapist looking for a job. 

From:

Date: Jan 8, 2013 9:36 PM

Subject: Re: Job | Physiotherapy/ Physical Therapist

To: "Back 2 Fitness"

if i had that much money, i mean 50,000 plus the 1 lakh rs u want as bond amount, i wud have started my own clinic

i knw very well knwn cricketers and i will earn better then ur so called 2 lakh per annum, this is the stupidest job offer i have got any tym 

dare not to mail me again

I sincerely pity this young enthusiastic lady. By just one response, she has shown her class. Her response reminds me of my Dean in Medical College, Dr. J. S. Nagra, a gentleman who did an amazing job of making a bunch of rogues into the finest doctors on the planet. He had once told a student, who was being over-smart, very similar to this lady, "to make a horse out of a donkey, no amount of money is ever sufficient."