Coffee, Cortisol, and Morning Fear
She did not call me about the ankle. “Doctor, I did not want to disturb you,” she said, voice firm despite her eighty-five years. “Two...
Category : General
Before You Swallow That Antibiotic
“Doctor, I had a bad cold.” “How many days?” “Four.” “Fever?” “Little.” “What medicines?” “Ghar me Augmentin pada tha. Teen din le liya. Phir bhi...
Doctor, Are They Mixing Mineral Oil in Our Cooking Oil?
She came at the end of the clinic, when questions grow softer and more personal. Sushma Shenoy is not the kind of patient who panics...
A Doctor’s Upma Story
He was fifty. An entrepreneur. The kind who lives on numbers. Revenue, margins, growth curves, projections. He spoke comfortably in percentages and quarterly targets, and...
Doctor, I’m Wearing a Jacket—Why Am I Still Falling Sick?
In Bangalore, winter is not a season. It is a performance. The temperature dips to eighteen degrees, and the city behaves as if Switzerland has...
Why Constipation Has Become India’s Most Common Gut Complaint?
Constipation is no longer a digestive complaint. It is a scheduling problem. In my clinic, it arrives daily, politely disguised as lifestyle confusion. “Doctor, I...
Are You Really Hungry or Just Dehydrated?
At 4:40 PM on a humid Bangalore evening, a software engineer sits across from me clutching a steel flask like evidence. He looks mildly offended...
When Prescriptions Aren’t Enough
For ten years, she has walked into my clinic carrying more than her reports. Her thyroid numbers were obedient. Her life was not. Three-fourths of...
Why Chyawanprash in Winter?
Bengaluru winters never storm like Delhi’s. It creeps in like a shy intern: polite, underconfident, but somehow managing to disrupt the whole office. One morning,...
The Colostrum Craze: Liquid Gold or Just Golden Hype?
When I was nine, my grandmother made something called ginna from the thick yellow milk a neighbour’s cow produced after calving. It looked strange—custard with...