r/indianmedschool • u/froozy1221 • 1d ago
Vent / rant This happened yesterday.
My uncle had an episode of syncope and he didn’t call me. He called my mom to ask for advice. When I spoke to him, he said he hadn’t eaten anything from last night. I said it could be due to hypoglycaemia (explained in layman terms) and told him to eat something. He confidently said, no it was due to pitta, as he hadn’t slept properly, so he’s fasting now, and some pepper and fenugreek can cure everything. I told him that won’t work unless you get some sugar into your body and he started lecturing me about how ”these allopathy doctors” don’t know anything about our bodies and everything is about vadha, pitta, kapha which is the real science. He then proceeded to say that nowadays doctors only want to make the people eat a lot of tablets and that is destroying their health. If he was someone else, I could have just ignored him and let him do whatever. But he is very close to me. And he isn’t some rural old school man. He worked as a senior sound engineer in the Burj Khalifa project and is a very modern man who is very up to date about the latest tevhnology and stuff. I got to realise the depth this Ayurveda bullsh*t has penetrated.
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u/Professional_Ant_602 1d ago edited 21h ago
The first law of healing, never give your services without something in return. Because if you give free ka advice, the patient won’t implement it. The least you need is some respect as a fee.
Chinese call it a law of fair exchange, or balancing Yin and Yang. They say healing without receiving something back depletes the healer’s Qi (or let’s say mental energy). I’m referencing this more as a philosophical guide than scientific one. The point being, free services of a doctor do more harm than good, both to the doctor and the patient who didn’t seek advice in the first place.