LIFECARES ISSUE 14

PONDER AND ACT- GOSSIP, RUMOR AND MORE

Gossip is one of the most indecent and vulgar indulgences that most of us are guilty of at some point of time in our lives! Invariably gossips feature a mishap, a failure, a betrayal or a loss. Sometimes there aren't sufficient bad happenings to feed the insatiable orgy of hungry gossipers!

FOR YOUR HEALTH - SUMMER BURNS

Your neighbor gets a brand new car - or a brand new wife -or both; your rival gets your job and that club membership you were eyeing for years - these are all situations where you may suffer, justifiably from "literary" heartburn. But this article is written for those unfortunate millions who are crunched by "literal" heartburn, a disease otherwise known as reflux oesophagitis.

CLAWS OF DEATH - CAN DO WITH OR WITHOUT SPLEEN

Spleen is our body's sieve. It filters the blood of all impurities and micro organisms, it also produces a type of white blood cells which fights the microbes. Thus, Spleen acts as our defense mechanism to diseases.

ASK OUR CONSULTANT- A COIN HAS TWO SIDES

My friend took his mother for a master health check on 20th February, 2010. She was quite healthy (No BP, No sugar or No weakness). After a few hours, it was informed that her heart condition was critical and likely to get a heart-attack and she required immediate intervention

MEET OUR CONSULTANT - FOR THE +VE WOMEN

This month we feature Dr Amudha Hari, who completed her MBBS in Stanley Medical College, her DGO in IOG, followed the PhD in MGR Medical University.

GROOM YOURSELF- BOUNCE BACK

The Dictionary says: Resilience means being able to adapt to life's misfortunes and setbacks.
Are you cheerful and happy in spite of everything in life not really going the way you want it to go?

CLIPPING - A FOND RECALL

It is always a proud moment to me as an Indian, when I have patients from other nations, who come to me for treatment or for surgery. It is with very great nostalgia I recall the first Bariatic Surgery performed on Ms. Sandra, an US national. Another pretty Californian married to a NRI, Dr. Ahamed, who has lost 50 kg weight, now a ravishing beauty is settling in India with her Husband.

VITAL ORGAN - ACT NOW OR PAY LATER!

Diabetic kidney disease (failure of kidney due to diabetes), like the epidemics of infectious diseases, have long dominated Public Health Agenda. Over the past 25 years, the prevalence of diabetes has increased threefold to fivefold according to WHO,130 million individuals in China and India will have diabetes by 2025.

EVENT - INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN ZAMBIA

Zambian Development Agency (ZDA), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Lifeline Hospitals of Chennai co-organized a business seminar on investment opportunities in Zambia on the 23rd of March at 3.00 pm at Taj Hotel at Mount Road.

FIGHT FAT CLUB

We introduce one of our Fight Fat Club members, Mr. B.Vivek, Dy .General Manager, Lifeline Hospital, Chennai, who weighed around 67 kg , two years ago.

ACT OF KINDNESS- REACHING OUT

Dalai lama once said if you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.After the commemoration of a thousand free surgeries, by Mr. Richard Haynes, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, in December 2004, Dr Rajarathinam Medical and Educational Foundation has never looked back, scores and scores of patients are being treated free or at subsidized rates, many educated and rehabilitated.

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE

OBSTETRICS WORK AT Upgraded Primary Health center, MEDAVAKKAM.

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EDITOR'S NOTE

Dear readers,
One message I often see and sense is that the Corporate Hospitals charge exorbitantly for treating even a common cold or fever. The very fact that one required hospitalization for a common cold proves that it was uncommon.

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