Saturday night, I had the best dinner with my family. Laughing, giggling, eating, talking we did not realize that it was 11 p.m! "Lets go for a walk" said dad, because he knew that not just him, but all of us had crammed our stomachs! There was an old couple on the street who I presumed was on the dark lonely street for the same reason as us. The old aunty smiled at us when we crossed each other, and 'baammm' we heard about half a minute later. We turned around and saw the uncle lying on the ground grappling his chest tight, aunty calling out his name in agony, shaking him! We all ran towards them and.....
Most of us must have faced situations like this, may be not exactly like these but yes, you must have felt ridiculous about the fact that we have nothing to do but see a person in tremendous pain rather dying in front of you and all you can do is wait for the ambulance or help which is often behindhand in a country like India. Now, I don't mean to sound quintessential about the whole 'see how India is...' matter, but lets face it, we need a revolution in the field of 'not letting traffic affect ambulance services', don't we? I am sure all the mumbaikars will back me up on that.
Not putting you guys through more situations, traffic realities and Indian developmental scenarios i would now come to the point straight. I am Deeksha Thorat, a 3rd year MBBS student from NaviMumbai and I am here to wake you guys up, tell each and every person who has felt powerless or incapable in situations that YOU yes you could have made a difference with little and trust me on this when i say little knowledge about 'the doctor stuff'. Who are doctors? Why are they so powerful in situations where, a non-medico is completely incapable? When you see an actor with flawless, spotless skin, looking all alluring and lavishing on your television sets, do you think, 'areey yeh toh bhagwan hai, hum aise nahi dikh payenge kabhi bhi' ? NO! With so much of makeup putty on any face, results will pretty much be the same, is what we think! No? (ignoring Mr. Om Puri for a while). Plus, we have examples all around bollywood. So why does medicine make you think is not your cup of tea? Doctors are just humans who decided to throng their memory areas of brain till before, it just explodes.
I am not asking you'll to acquire knowledge standards of a doctor and take smugly decisions which might do harm more than good, but just making you realize that little things like the mosquito species that cause dengue fever bite during the day time, an animal bite wound should never be bandaged or covered immediately, one small pill if taken immediately after a person starts getting heart attack pains can make the pains go away and give a window period of at least an hour, calcium and iron folic acid supplements should not be taken together because calcium tablet hampers the absorption of iron from the gut, breast milk from each breast should be given for more than 15 minutes as the initial milk secreted contains more water to quench the thirst of the baby and less nutrients than the milk portion which comes after that. This blog is not your fact checker but a guide towards SELF HELP!
Sometimes you may be alone and conscious enough to say or do that one important thing which can be your own life saver. 'Half knowledge is dangerous' they say, ask them to bring forth a person who knows everything about anything I say. Acquiring correct knowledge from the horse's mouth is the only decree in the process of learning something new.
"A 3rd year medical student will tell us how to take care of ourselves? She is not even a doctor yet! How much reliable can she be? This is health that we are talking about, not some Italian dish which cannot go wrong if you add cheese in it." This, my dear friends is a very genuine thought. BUT, if you can ignore the perils of asking google, ' medicine used for itchy skin, loose motions, constipation?' I wont be hesitant in saying that I am a tad bit more reliable than that, with distinctions in the 1st and 2nd years of the MBBS course that I appeared for. Also we the medical students are updated with the latest improvements in the field of medicine and preventive medicine. Cannot ignore the fact that we have all our medical books handy and well, the knowledge is garden-fresh (typing all this with a self satisfied smirk).
Finally post-scripting, whatever skills I had developed writing letters and essays in the CBSE English language papers till date, have been put to use in conveying this little message that yes, a LAYPERSON can also be a LIFE SAVER, not just by knowing what to do next till help arrives, but also in preventing such situations. Much power to you guys, or should I say DOCYOU! I hope, these multitudinous words from a fledgling blog might have made you'll eager enough for my FIRST DOCYOU TEMPLATE, coming out soon!
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