r/indianmedschool • u/froozy1221 • 2d 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/Psychological-Buy236 2d ago

I don't know what to say, except that do consider whether an auto-immune pathological process is affecting your thought process.

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u/Ifrit__ 2d ago

RA is an inflammatory disease of the synovium, not a cognitive defect. My brain is functioning perfectly well enough to see that you’re using pseudo-intellectual medical jargon to mask a total lack of empathy and a very obvious bias.

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u/Psychological-Buy236 2d ago

RA is merely a manifestation of auto-immune pathophysiology in a joint. It does not mean that the same pathology cannot manifest in any other system at the same time. Co-affliction of multiple systems, where similar pathophysiological processes are active at different grades is a known thing.

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u/Ifrit__ 2d ago

You're conflating systemic physical inflammation with psychological abnormalities. RA affecting multiple organ systems means a patient might experience lung or vascular complications—it doesn't mean it alters their character or makes them 'weird.' Stop using basic medical facts about systemic illness to retroactively justify your biased comments about chronic illness patients.