Different multispecialty hospitals now have a package like travel agents or Big Bazaar. Pay Rs 1,999 and get 81 tests and walk free without tension!
Most of us fear death that’s the unpalatable truth. Those who have children abroad or have mediclaim get themselves tested very frequently in multispecialty hospitals. Doctors are waiting like hawks to grab such people with weak personality and desiring to live a meaningless life.
Lipid profile, liver function tests, kidney function test, MRI of brain, CT angio, tumour markers, lung function tests, endoscopy, colonoscopy and what not!
One such person got herself tested in a famous hospital at Bhubaneswar. The doctor said “perfect reports”. Two days after that routine test while she was serving dinner to her husband, she had a sudden death!
So, friends, test does not predict your death time or day. Like EDD, the delivery now depends on doctor’s availability, not on EDD calculation.
So, friends, if you are happy that your doctor told you “your reports are excellent, do not worry for another five years!”
But if you believe in destiny then do not run after mirage of medical science. It’s you gene + destiny which is more important than these jargons of medical tests.
Sanjoy Kumar Satpathy, a doctor, Bhubaneswar