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Have you known anyone who has been diagnosed with a liver tumor or cyst that needs surgery?
If you do, you would understand how difficult it is for the patient and his or her family to take decisions. Many patients who land up in our center have already visited at least two more surgeons.
Stomach cancer is a dreaded disease. If not detected early, it progresses fast and has a poor outcome.
However, in recent times, there has been some promising breakthroughs in its management that has revived hope for the patients.
In a recently organised training program on bariatric surgery in Belle Vue, eight surgeons from West Bengal and Bangladesh participated and were awarded certification from Boston University at the conclusion of the program.
And why should one not be? The entire process involves tedious hospital admission, injections, operation and postoperative pain. Add to it the fear of complications and it is too much to handle for most.
Who looks forward to all that?
True! We all undertake the whole ordeal because there is no way out. If we had a choice we would run away.
It’s disheartening for any patient to know that their abdominal wall gave way spontaneously or after a surgery. A second surgery with the possibility of a failure looms large on the patient’s mind. Many however realise they have no other option but to get operated once again and they do so. Some stay in fear postponing their surgery waiting for compelling reasons.
The right approach is to overcome the fear, gain knowledge and choose correctly.
Health should be one of the top priorities in an individual’s life. Unfortunately it only figures frequently in a New Year’s resolution but does not translate into practice for most.
For those who are motivated, the next challenge is to decide WHAT steps to focus on. It is for them that I have written the following article.