Clinic Captain

“The world and all its peoples have won freedom from smallpox. ” This statement was issued by the 33rd World Health assembly in May, 1980, 5 months after it was official that smallpox was eradicated. It's one of the two diseases that has the pleasure of being eradicated, the other being rinderpest. The last case of smallpox was registered in Somalia in 1977. We've learnt this much in academics. H istory suggests that the 1st case of smallpox was some 12000 years ago, around the time the agricultural revolution began. It is also believed that this notorious disease in 430 BC caused the Plagueof Athens and the Antonine Plague  killing people in the ballpark of 3.5 to 7 million , including emperors and high lords and ladies, thus devastating the normal way of life. It was not until 1796 , that Edward Jenner , an English doctor, discovered that infection to cowpox, created immunity for smallpox . Thus, coining the term vaccine . But how was this seemingly hum

A living thing that has exhibited the characteristic of thriving on the expense of some other living being, better than humans, as far as I can think of, might only be viruses. Sickness has existed as long as humans have, which has brought forward the need for medicines in human society, oldest use of prescriptions dates back to 2,112 BC – 2,004 BC in Sumer during the third dynasty of Ur. B ut the way we handle sickness now is completely different from how we went about it in the medieval times. Yes, the credit is unanimously given to science and technology but what really deserves the credit for our development must be the undying human tendency to know and learn, be it John Snow , who traced the source of cholera outbreak in London,or Edward Jenner , who found out that infection to cow pox could create immunity to small pox, in a period when it was considered that “ demons ” and other “ sinful airs ” were disseminating diseases. Throughout history, humankind has benefitte

What if you had a code that could access every detail of your life, your phone, your house, even your bank account? Would you go around sharing that code with everyone you know?  I don’t think so. People are pretty defensive when it comes to sharing personal details because privacy unlocks their life. But what if your own Government uses these small details against you? You would never want that, trust me. According to the words of famous American Whistleblower Edward Snowden, " No matter who you are, every day of your life you are sitting in a Database just ready to be looked at ." To know how data can really be misused let us talk about some real-world examples. ✓   In India, Cambridge Analytica had been used by Indian National Congress to carryout in-depth electorate analysis and influence voters in the 2010 elections by exposing data of about 562,455 users. ✓   Back in 2016, state auditors in the state of Minnesota found that between 2013 and

Isn't it lovely, all alone? Heart made of glass, my mind of stone  A nd isn't it really lovely how fragile our hearts and brain are to us. We often look after it and try to prevent it from disorders like CDC , arrhythmia , Alzheimer's disease , dementia  etc. But while caring all about the physical aspect, we lack in dealing with the mental aspect, preeminent problems like stress , anxiety and depression . The link between mental health and physical health is often misunderstood. They’re often thought of as separate entities, but the two go hand in hand. In fact, the   World Health Organization  defines Health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. But here we are more concerned with our physical health rather than being mentally healthy. Mental health is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can wor

Yes, it’s the year 2020; the same year where Phoebe predicted that Emma would be hearing her message from a TV that wasn’t invented back then, living in cities built on air to escape from the “ant people”. But looking at her expectations we seem to have fallen short of them, it’s evident in the way the pandemic is wreaking havoc in the nation.  It looks like there’s a long travel ahead to develop a fool-proof healthcare system. The coronavirus pandemic has truly highlighted the blemish of all nations affecting each and every country alike; irrespective of the divisions and distinctions men had incorporated into their lives. This failure in the health care system globally has become a lesson for all the world leaders who invested more on hedonism than on trying to build a system that could withstand a global catastrophe. We were so threatened by what one human could do to other, finding ways to destroy one another, if need be, we never invented any protocol to stave off a massiv